The Wolfman of Ponyville.
Chapter 37: A visit from Babs. ( Slight edit)
Previous Chapter Next ChapterA couple of days after the whole clone fiasco, Jackie's little cousin Babs was coming over for a visit from Manehatten. She would be sharing a room with Applebloom so she'll be coming with Jackie, Lulu, the boys and me to meet her at the station. Since this was the first time Bloom would be meeting her, she was going crazy over what to wear when they meet. Which is why I'm standing by her door while Jackie tries to get her to hurry up. " Scoot your boot Applebloom, we gotta meet our cousin at the station."
I took a peek inside to see her room was littered with clothes. " I didn't think you had this many outfits, Bloom?" I then saw that she rapidly changed clothes when she pulled down her bed curtain. " Or that Pinkie gave you outfit changing lessons."
" Nevermind the getup, we need to get going before the train arrives."
Bloom grabbed her blanket and wore it as a makeshift cloak while giving herself a once-over in the mirror. " This is my first time meeting her, and she's from Manehatten." She then did a twirl, ending up wearing the thing like a hood with designer glasses finding their way on her face. " I want to make a good impression, so we can hit it off."
At that point, Jackie came over and dragged her towards the door. " I know you'll hit it off, you know why."
" No, why?"
" Cause neither of you has your Cutiemark yet." Oh damn, she shouldn't have said that.
" What! How could you forget to tell me something like that!" She ran out of the door and rushed past us. " I got to get Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo, I'll meet you all at the train station." And just like that, she was gone.
" Well, this visit just got more interesting. Come, we'll take the silver chariot." Luna announced while taking the boys with her.
" For the last time Luna, it's not a chariot, it's my truck!" I went after her with Jackie following though not before she gave a huff at the state of AB's room. We got in the truck and headed for the station.
" This is why I'm glad our kids our boys." I was watching as the Crusaders jumped around the platform, waiting for the train to get here with Babs. As they were jumping around, wondering if Bloom's cousin would even want to join their club, Orion and Jack started spraying magic sparks on the ground while they sat in their stroller.
Luna made this comment. " I don't know Dear, in a few years or months, Jackie and I might want another child. And one of us might just have a girl." She then bumped me with her flank in a playful manner.
" I don't know Sugar, the Huffstutler clan has only sired males for the last thousand years. But that doesn't mean we can't try for one or two." I gave her a quick slap to the rear, saying I was open to the idea, just not anytime soon.
While Lulu and I were discussing possible future children, the train from Manehatten whistled down the track. Bloom was the first to react to it. " Is that the train from Manehatten?"
" Yep." The train pulled in, and the Three Amigos went looking through the windows of the train cars. After assuming that a cow was Babs, Jackie had enough of her guessing. " Bloom, you've never met Babs, remember." She gave her an amused smirk at that.
" Which I find odd, I thought for sure that she would've been at our wedding?"
" She got hay-fever two days before the wedding, so she and her parents couldn't come." I saw the logic in that and nodded my head. " Look, there she is." The last train door opened to reveal Babs Seed.
Bloom launched herself over to her the second she saw her. " Babs, it's me, your cousin Applebloom!" She got right in her face and introduced her to the other Crusaders. " This is Sweetie Belle and this is Scootaloo, and we're so happy to see you." Babs started to feel a bit uncomfortable with all the attention. I decided to intervene.
I pulled those three back a bit while I went to introduce myself. " Come on girls, give her some room to breathe." When Babs saw me, her eyes went wide with surprise. " Hey, my name is-"
" King Joe of Herot, Prince, and hero of Equestria!" I was a little surprised that she was this excited to see me. " I've followed all your exploits from the papers and have almost all the toys they made of you." She reached into her suitcase and brought out two action figures. One of them was of me when I'm not wolfed out, and one of me when I was wolfed out. They both had a miniature Frostbite in a battle-ready grip. Then she got out a toy truck that was an exact replica of my truck. " Do you think you can sign this for me?"
I stared at all the merchandise and laughed at the silliness of the situation. " Sure thing, also, no need for fancy titles, you can call me Joe since we're kin." She gave off an excited squee as I went and signed her truck or my truck, this is very confusing. " Okay, let's head on over to the farm." I led the girls and my family over to the truck which Babs squeed at, and headed for the farm while putting on the radio.
As we drove back to the farm, the girls talked to Babs about joining the Crusaders and wanting her to join the summer harvest parade in the float they built together. Ah, to be young and full of wonder. Sometimes I wish to go back and be a kid again, but then they'd never let me drink, not to mention it would be awkward in the bedroom. As my thoughts lingered for a bit, we arrived at the farmhouse.
" All right, here's where you'll be staying Babs. Here, let me get your bags." I took her bags and we all went into the house. We went through the kitchen where Pear and Bright were in the middle of making lunch for us all. " We're back."
Bright was the first to respond. " Good your just in time for lunch." His voice and presence were startling to Babs.
" Uncle Bright!?" She looked over to Pear. " Aunt Buttercup!?" Guess she wasn't told about their return, or that Buttercup is just Pear's nickname. " Dad told me you guys were dead."
Pear came over and wrapped her in a hug. " Not dead. Just gone for a bit, but thanks to your cousin Joe." She pointed at me. " We got home safe and sound."
" You know, I believe I had a hand in liberating you two and the others from that gladiatorial arena." My Dad came in with Hercules to come and see Babs before heading off for his shift at the barracks. He went up to Babs to introduce himself. " How are you doing, I'm David, Joe's father." He presented his hand for a handshake which she took a hold of and shook vigorously.
When she was done shaking my dad's hand, Hercules came over and started sniffing her over, this made her a little nervous. " He's not going to bite is he?"
" Nah, Hercules is a big ole softie, ain't ya boy?" He then went and started licking her face. " Although he will slobber all over ya."
She giggled at the attention she was given and started petting Hercules. When they stopped playing, we all sat down for a nice lunch of vegetable soup, yeast rolls and fritters for dessert. While we were eating, Babs would ask about my exploits that may not have made it to the papers. Turns out, almost all the good stuff didn't even get printed as she was surprised about the dragon, hydra, and the fact that Mimir was hanging off my belt, how she hadn't noticed him before, I'll never know.
" Alright, enough about me, let's hear about you, what's it like living in the big city?" Her smile melted to a frown as she looked toward her flank. " What? Something I said?" With all of us around the table, she told us about how all of her classmates had their Cutiemarks and how they would pick on her for being a blank flank. This got me feeling sorry for her, so I did my best to try and cheer her up. " You know, if it makes you feel any better, I don't have a Cutiemark either."
" Really!? But you're royalty and a hero. How could you not have one?"
" Well besides me being a different species, a mark on my ass doesn't define what I do or who I am. In my opinion, a Cutiemark is something that shows what you're good at, not what you're meant to be in life. Take your cousin Applejack for instance." I grabbed ahold of her and brought her close to me. " Her Cutiemark is three apples, telling us that she has a talent for working on an apple farm. As true as that is, she has done a lot more than just that. She is a bearer to the element of honesty, a newly appointed princess, wife to a dashing Werewolf and mother to little Jack here." Jackie blushed at the list of credentials I kept naming off while Jack giggled when I patted him on the head.
" I know that my mark will come when I'm ready, but what about the bullies."
" Two things. One, tell your folks about the bullying, they can often make the situation better. Two, those who are bullying you, are trying to mask their own insecurities by putting others down with what they're insecure about."
As I gave her sage advice, Luna had a question for me. " Sweetheart, how would you know what it feels like to be bullied?"
" I guess I never told you two about my elementary school days. You may not know this, except for you dad, but I didn't know I was a werewolf until middle school, back then I thought I was a regular kid going through early puberty with all the hair growing on me." This got a laugh from everyone. " Yeah, a lot of the kids laughed at me because of that too. For the most part, I took it on the chin and let it be. However, there was this bully I had in the second grade, though he wasn't the problem, he had an older brother in the fourth grade who was much worse. Though he wasn't the problem either, one of them was usually suspended or in detention, it was when they were together, they were vicious and caused kids a lot of pain."
" What happened to them?" Babs asked, hoping for a solution to her problem through my experience.
" Well, I got bigger and stronger." My wives seemed dissatisfied with that. " Also, dad took me out in the woods one weekend and revealed what he and I really were. And so with that knowledge, I wasn't afraid of those two anymore. When I went back to school on Monday, those two went and caught me between recess and were about to beat me up. You know what I did to them?" Dad had a smirk while the others shook their heads no. " I wolfed out for the first time and scared the crap out of both of them. From then on, I feared no living being, and those bullies never so much as verbally abused anyone."
Babs had her jaw unhinged at the story of my childhood. " That was so cool! The instant I get back home, I'll tell how the teacher about the other kids bullying me."
" Now that's a very wise decision, can't believe I didn't come up with it." We all laughed at my joke as we continued our lunch and made more small talk.
Later that evening in my living room.
Everyone was sitting in the living room for a family movie night. I popped in the movie that we would play while I brought over some popcorn to the couch. I plopped in-between my wives and looked to the Crusaders and their newest member, Babs Seed. " So, the first day here and already a member of an exclusive club. How are we feeling about that?"
Babs showed off her new cape, signaling her membership into the Crusade for a Cutiemark. " It feels great to be a member of a club, though the initiation speech could be shortened a little."
" I said I would revise it after we make a new float." Scoots told Babs in a somewhat annoyed tone.
" Don't worry, your mom and I will help with that if you want." Bright gave Bloom a noogie, making her giggle. In truth, it should be me lending a hand in a new float seeing as it was my dog who ruined it by chasing two trespassers named Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. Why those two were on the farm, I'll never know.
Before another word can be said, Discord appeared behind the couch with a drinking helmet and a foam finger. " Enough chit-chat, get on with the movie."
" Alright fine, you mismatched zoo animal." I took hold of the remote and pressed play. I decided to play an old favorite of mine when I was a boy. " Alright, here we go with ' Raiders of the Lost Ark'."
Everyone was captivated when Jones made his appearance. They were on edge when he and the other guy went through the temple and tried to avoid the traps. When he went for the idol and the big trap was sprung, they all screamed a bit. When the chase against the natives started, we cheered for him to run faster. We chuckled when he found a big old snake in his seat and started freaking out.
Soon we came to the part where he was back at the college.
Granny giggled at how the girls flirted with Jones. " That's how I met your father Bright."
" Wait, Pa was a professor?"
" No! That's just one of the ways I flirted with him when he worked as a farmhand." Everyone shuddered at the mental imagery of that while Jones was explaining what the Staff of Ra is to the military intelligence guys.
An hour later
Nearly all the popcorn had been eaten and everyone was holding in the need to use the bathroom in hopes of not missing the final confrontation between Jones and the Nazis. We got to the scene where Indy and Marrion were tied to a pole and the Nazis were about to open the Ark. I hope the kids won't be too traumatized.
At first, the kids thought the bad guys had won, that quickly changed once the spirits started coming out. Once the girl revealed itself to be deadly, the whole Apple family started screaming along with the Nazis. Once the faces started to melt, Pear quickly excused herself to the bathroom. After Indy was back in the states and the movie ended with the Ark being put in the warehouse, our house guests made their way back to the farmhouse.
With the mess cleaned up, I took the boys to their room to be tucked in. " Goodnight boys, I'll see you both in the morning." I gave a kiss to each of their foreheads and left them to dream. I made my way over to me and Jackie and Lulu's bedroom and found that my Valkyries were already fast asleep. I gave an amused chuckle and slip into some pajama shorts before sliding in between my wives. They must have noticed my presence as the cuddled close to me. I gave each of them a kiss on the lips and joined them into the land of dreams.
Next Chapter: The Wolfman vs the Magician. (Edited) Estimated time remaining: 15 Hours, 59 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
Alright, I hear you now. Babs was supposed to be a bully and learn a lesson at the end. That might be true, if not for the fact that Joe was her idol and they all talked about the whole bullying thing in the first place. Also, the reason she became the bully never happened since they were chased away by Hercules.
For those wondering, yes, I was bullied in school and more often than not, made the situation worse by not telling an adult and fought those who bullied me. Don't know why I wrote that, but whatever.
Anyway, I believe it's time for a dual between a humiliated show-mare and the Wolfman, enjoy.