“Any luck, Fluttershy?” I asked becoming increasingly worried as our search continued, so far inconclusive. It’s been at least two hours and there hasn’t been a single trace of him anywhere!

“Sorry… I looked everywhere, but I haven’t seen him at all,” the pegasus mare glumly answered.

“I don’t get it…! I checked the library six different times, I looked all over the place and even asked a whole slew of ponies if they’ve seen him… and what do I come up with? Nothing! TY! WHERE ARE YOU!!?” I shouted, although I knew that was futile. This was NOT a good day for me.

“Twilight, calm down…” Rainbow Dash advised.

“Calm down? How could I possibly calm down!?" I asked in elevated frustration. "My colt-friend’s gone missing without so much as a trace of his whereabouts, nopony knows where he could possibly have been, and none of us haven’t come up with a single lead myself! And you want me to calm down??” I snapped in distress.

“Hey! Don’t go biting my head off because he hasn’t shown up yet! It’s not my fault! What’s up with you!?” The sky blue mare shot back in offense.

“Girls… you sho—!”

“Oh, well EXCUUUUSE me for worrying about somepony I care about! What would YOU do if YOUR special somepony went missing!?”

“Girls… please don—!”

“Well I’d certainly be a bit more calm and collected about it than you’re being right now! I mean come on! He’s only been gone a couple hours and you’re treating it like he got kidnapped or something! Seriously, Twi, you have a habit of overblowing things…”

“Twilight… Rainbow… ple—!”

“Oh, like how you overblew it when you were panicking about that flight competition a few years back? Like how you overblew it when you tried stealing that Daring Do book from the hospital? Like how you overblew it when you decided to play superhero and let it go to your head? Don’t you DARE tell me I have a habit of overblowing things when you do it just as often as I do!”

“Girls… stop argu—!”

“That stuff’s got NOTHING to do with this! And you wanna compare situations of overblowing things? How about when you made at least HALF OF PONYVILLE fight over that raggedy old doll because of a letter to the Princess? Or how, during that SAME situation where I was ‘playing superhero,’ you and the others, rather than confront me on the issue, decide to disguise yourselves as the ‘Oh-So Mysterious Mare-Do-Well’ and one-up me at every tu—!”

“GIRLS!!” Fluttershy screamed, alarming both Rainbow and I. “This fighting has got to stop! This isn’t going to help us find him any sooner than if we kept trying…” She was right… I had no idea what had come over me. I’d normally never lose my temper like that. Especially not on a friend of mine… I felt just awful taking my emotions out on Rainbow… she didn’t deserve it.

“Y-you’re right…” I solemnly concurred. “I’m sorry, Rainbow Dash…”

“Yeah… I’m sorry, too…” she replied, rubbing the back of her head. “I… I know it must not be easy not knowing where he is… but as your friend, I’ll still help you try to find him… Besides, he can’t be too far off. It hasn’t been that long.”

“Th-thank you…” I felt a sudden wave of sorrow hit me as I nearly succumbed to the tears of guilt welling up in my eyes. “I’m really sorry… I… I’m a wreck right now… the last thing I’d want to do is upset you girls…”

“Aww, Twilight…” Fluttershy said as she hugged me. “We’ll find him… and he’ll be okay…”

“Yeah,” Rainbow added as she joined in. “I’m sure wherever he is, he’s fine…”

“Hey, is one of you three named Twilight?” asked a new voice. Fluttershy, Rainbow, and I broke the hug and turned our attention to the new voice. It was a gray pegasus mare with blond hair that resembled a style not too dissimilar from Rainbow’s. She had golden eyes that always seemed to be looking in different directions. To be quite frank, I’ve seen this mare around Ponyville VERY often. In fact, if I wasn’t mistaken, she was one of Ponyville’s mail mares. Oddly enough, however, I’d also caught numerous glimpses of her in places in which I’d assumed she didn’t have any reason being. I wasn’t sure what her name was, either. I think Rainbow used to call her “Derpy” at some point, but she mentioned getting chewed out harshly for it one time and had since refrained from calling her that.

“Yes, I’m Twilight,” I answered and stepped forward. “What can I help you with?”

“I think somepony’s in biiiig trouble and he needs your help!” she said as she leaned towards me before taking a seemingly painful faceplant. Her news made my heart sink.

“What do you mean, ‘in big trouble’? Who's in trouble? What do they need help with?” The mail mare picked herself back up, goofily stumbling back to a standing position in preparation to answer my question.

“Do you know a tall, black Earth stallion? Cloud for a Cutie Mark? Even though that doesn’t make a lot of sense… I mean… an Earth pony with a cloud for a Cutie Mark… how would he be able to work for the weather team without wings…?”

“Excuse me,” I interrupted her mumbling as her description matched the stallion I was searching for to a 'T'. “But that sounds VERY familiar... Where did you see him?”

“Umm… Oh! I saw him… walking past some houses while I was on my mail route… and then… he bumped into another pony… and then what happened…? Hmm…” Although this mysterious mare’s explanation of this pony’s whereabouts was… questionable at best, I decided to listen, as it was my only lead. “Oh yeah! The other pony had someone with him. They were both unicorns. The third pony was blue. And that pony blocked the first guy’s way with a magical wall. And then… um… the first guy was gonna sock the second one right in the face! But then he got stopped. But then he tried again and did it! And then… and then the blue pony shot him with some magic, making him go falling down on the ground, like this…”

It’s worthy of note that this eccentric mare was actually reenacting everything she claimed to have seen going down between who I could guess was Ty and these two unicorns in her story. “Then they hit him with some more magic. And then the two unicorns took him away…”

“What???” I was outright appalled at the news. Ty really DID get kidnapped?

“Okay… maybe he ISN’T fine…” Rainbow Dash muttered.

“Did you see where they took him? Do you know what the two unicorns looked like? How long ago did this happen??” I asked in panicked succession.

“Umm…” the mare took a second to think. “No I don’t know where they took him, one of them was tan with black hair and the other one was light blue with purple hair, and it happened maybe… an hour ago… But that’s all I know. I hope you can find him. If I wasn’t so sure you knew by now, I’d say he needs your help… I wish I could help, but I gotta get back home. Good luck!” the mare said as she took flight, slowly and erratically flying away from us.

“Hey! Derp—! I-I mean uh… Ditzy! Your house is THAT way!” Rainbow Dash advised.

“Oh yeah! Thanks, Rainbow Dash!” the gray mare said as she did a rather sloppy one hundred eighty-degree turn and soared off in that direction. Once Ditzy was out of sight, I voiced my concerns.

“Oh my gosh, that is the WORST news I could’ve EVER had delivered to me!”

“I dunno, Twi… I think Ditzy did a pretty good job of acting out what happened. I think it added to the—!”

“No, not that! The fact that Ty really DID wind up being kidnapped!”

“Oh… yeah, that stinks.”

“Yeah, and we need to get to the bottom of this right away!”

“But… how?” Fluttershy asked. “All we know is that two unicorns were likely responsible… Where do we start?”

“Hmm… I’ve got it!” I announced after a brief moment of contemplation. “I’ll cast a spell to scan areas of the town for clues regarding the use of magic. If Ditzy’s story was as accurate as I hope it was, then there should still be some traces of these unicorns’ magic resonating in the area in which the deed was done. Rainbow Dash, I’ll need you to gather up a pegasus search team to scour the town for either Ty or at least one of the unicorns Ditzy mentioned in her story.”

“Roger! But uh… a quick reminder on what they looked like?”

“Uh… I believe Ditzy said that one of them was… tan with black hair. The other one was… light blue with purple hair. Both of them unicorns."

"...I'd hate to break it to you, but... that isn't exactly a lot of info to work with. Anything more specific? Like eye color? Hairstyle? Even what their Cutie Marks looked like?"

"Hmm... Ditzy didn't mention anything beyond coat and hair colors... *sigh* Just be on the lookout for an Earth stallion that matches Ty’s description, then. But be mindful of the information about those two unicorns we were given.”

“On it!” With that, Rainbow was off to perform the task I’d given her.

“Fluttershy, do you… possibly have any animals with senses keen enough to possibly recognize a particular scent or something of the like?”

“Um… I think I do… but I don’t know if I’d be able to find something at my home with a large enough sample of him on it…”

“I see… I can’t take any chances, though. Go home as quickly as you can and bring at least one animal with viable olfactory ability and, if necessary, bring it to the library. You should be able to find at least a couple of things with a good enough sample of his aroma on it.”

“I’ll do my best!” she assured, quickly taking flight towards her home.

“Okay, now that THAT’S under way… time to investigate…” I mumbled as I enchanted my horn and began a ground search for any possible disturbances in the makeup of the landscape. “Since the library and Fluttershy’s cottage were the only definitive places he’d actually been seen around, I’ll begin by teleporting back to the vicinity of Golden Oaks to commence the scan…”

*POOF* I’d arrived, my horn still glowing as I was already in the midst of performing the scanning spell. I’d immediately caught sight of Spike on his way back, causing me to power my horn down.

“Good afternoon, Spike!” I called.

“Hey, Twi,” he simply greeted back. He didn’t seem to be in very high spirits.

“What’s wrong? Did your day not go so well?”

“You could say that…”

“What happened?”

“It’s… kind of a long story, but I’ll try to wrap it up in a nutshell… I was with Snips and Snails and they wanted to buy some flowers to impress somepony they liked. We went to the shopping center to buy a bouquet from Roseluck. Turns out they both liked the same mare… and get this; that mare… was Junebug.”

“Oh dear… what happened next?”

“The two of them got into a fight that not only ruined the bouquet, but also made me lose this really rare, really tasty, but really small triangle-shaped garnet I was carrying and planning to eat at dinnertime. It took me FOREVER to find one of those… and now it’s gone…”

“Aww…” I felt for the little dragon. I was well aware of how much he loved his jewelry. I hugged him in consolation for his loss. “Sorry, little guy. I’m sure another one will pop up somewhere.”

“Yeah, I hope so… Say, what’s for dinner tonight? I’m starving.”

“Yeah… about that… I’m kind of in the middle of something… dinner may not come tonight.”

“What?? What could possibly keep you from making dinner?”

“I have reason to believe Ty was kidnapped.” As I expected, the dragon gasped in shock.

“What?? Seriously?? Oh man, that’s not good at all!” he said before he realized something. “Wait… He should be inside. I gave him that letter telling him to stay put.”

“Yes, but obviously, that was too hard an instruction for him to follow,” I stated in annoyance; not at Spike, of course. “He went to Fluttershy’s and, according to the mailmare, he got tangled up with two currently-unknown unicorns who subdued him and dragged him off.”

“Oh. That’s horrible!”

“I know… and if I don’t get moving now, I could wind up losing my trail on possible clues as to what happened to him. It could take me all of what’s left of this afternoon before I come up with decisive evidence, too… I’m really sorry Spike, but it looks like you may be responsible for your own sustenance tonight.”

“Can I come with you, then? I mean, I don’t know how much help I’ll be, but—!”

“Thank you Spike, but as I said, I’ll probably be all day, very likely into the evening searching. Besides, I’ll need someone here to watch over the library while I’m gone. Owloysius won’t be awake for a while.”

“Aww…”

“I’m sorry… I’ll make it up to you as soon as I can. I promise. That sound good?”

“I guess so…”

“Good,” I hastily answered as I moved to quickly hug the dragon. “Now I have to get going. I’ll see you later tonight, okay?”

“Sure! Good luck!” with that, I started my scan of the area. I decided to go down the quickest route to Fluttershy’s cottage. If she’d taken into consideration that he wanted to be quick about helping her, Fluttershy would likely have taken this route. I was swift, but meticulous in scanning the ground I tread upon, not wanting to miss a single detail.

As I tread, however, I was feeling increasingly conflicted about the situation at hoof.

“None of this would’ve happened had he just stayed put like I asked him to… Serves him right for not listening to me…!”

“No… that’s not nice… He DID only leave to help Fluttershy.”

“Yeah, this is partially HER fault, too! Why couldn’t she feed her animals herself?”

“No, it’s nopony’s fault. It’s not like I strained it that I wanted him to stay home no matter what… All that matters right now is finding him… ESPECIALLY since I need to have that talk with him… Immediately…!” I occasionally caught glimpses of pegasi soaring about overhead, which was confirmation of Rainbow Dash’s successful efforts in gathering a team of pegasi to keep an eye out around the town.

After close to a half-hour of scanning, I’d finally come across a faint, fading signal of magic activity a little more than halfway between the library and the cottage. I increased the strength of my spell tenfold to get a better reading of the phenomenon. From the feel of it, there were multiple uses of low-level spells in the immediate vicinity. I couldn’t place my hoof on what exact spells were used, but the fact still remained that Ditzy’s story had irrefutable merit. Still, there were no signs of anypony being dragged away from the area, so I decided to increase the strength of my spell again. Just then, however, I was approached by Fluttershy, accompanied by a snake.

“Hi, Twilight. Any luck?” she asked. I was compelled to jump out of my fur and run as far away as possible.

“She KNOWS how much I don’t like snakes…!” I held my own and took a few deep breaths before responding.

“Y-y-yes…”

“Of ALL things! A bear, a dog, an albatross, even a rat! THEY ALL have senses of smell adequate for the job! And she chooses the snake…!”

“What did you come up with?” she asked.

“H-he didn’t get far from your house b-b-before he was t-taken…” I was trying my best not to lose my cool.

“It’s just a simple, harmless snake; at least, I HOPE it’s harmless… It IS one of Fluttershy’s, after all...” I tried to reason within myself. But just the thought of those thick, venomous fangs… that unsettling double-pronged tongue… that… HIDEOUS, irritating hissing sound they made… I SHUDDER at the thought of one of them being near me…

“*ahem!* The unicorns took him from this spot, but I’m not picking up a trail of any sort leading from here, so they must’ve teleported someplace…"

“Oh! Well maybe little Ophis here can help us…” As she said that, the green, scaly creature slithered from around her neck and onto the ground. It sporadically stuck its tongue out and hissed, licking at the ground trying to get a good sample. At first, I’d thought it had something, but after a minute or so, it turned back to the pegasus mare, scratching its head with its tail.

“…Well I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised,” I said, slowly backing away from the creature. “As far as I recall, snakes smell the air with their tongues, and I’m not entirely su—!” Suddenly, it perked up and looked directly at me. I was petrified with terror, trembling like the weather had instantly turned bitterly frigid. It slithered towards me at a pace I could hardly comprehend. I was so close… SO close to turning tail and running far away…

“I think he’s got something!” Fluttershy cheered, which was just barely enough to hold me in place. The creature flicked its tongue on my hoof, causing me to flinch in horror. I thought that would be the worst of it… Sadly I was mistaken. It coiled its way up my shivering leg and up my neck, finally reaching its destination at my horn. It flicked its tongue a few times on my magic appendage.

“Omygosh, ohmygosh, ohmygosh, it’s on me! It’s so gross and scaly and slimy and it’s licking my horn and that HIDEOUS hissing noise is driving me insane! Whatever it is you’re doing, make it quick, then get OFF of me, you slithering little—!” I was ready to SCREAM in horror before it slithered its way off of me (thank Celestia!) before pointing its tail towards the Everfree forest…

“The Everfree forest?” Fluttershy and I asked in conjoined fear. I hypothesized that by getting a whiff of my horn (a torture I hope to NEVER go through again), it managed to get a sample of my magic signature. From there, it must’ve been able to better pinpoint any familiar signatures that resembled mine in the air. And if I wasn’t analyzing incorrectly, Ophis’s senses told him that our human-turned-stallion was taken into the Everfree forest… The feeling of sheer terror I was exhibiting was amplified…

There are SO many dangers in the Everfree… Plants grow by themselves, the clouds over it move on their own… and worst yet… the animals there… take care of themselves! And at THIS time of day, wherein the sun was beginning to set and be replaced by the moon, many dangerous creatures are known to come out…

“What if he’s in there all alone? Frightened, stranded, lost, and possibly injured… desperately looking for a way out… and then a Manticore… or a Cockatrice… or some Timberwolves… or even a Hydra…?”

“We need to go in there now!” I abruptly shouted, an intense wave of heart-sinking dread washing over me.

“Wh-wh-what??” objected a frightful Fluttershy. “W-we can’t! Not by ourselves…”

“If something happens to him while he’s in there, I could NEVER live it down, Fluttershy. We know what dangers lurk about in that forest. He doesn’t! I don’t know what those unicorns want with him, but if your snake is picking up traces of my magic coming from there, then I have no choice but to go in there and find out if he’s okay or not…” I, although feeling very tense and fearful, knew what I had to do. Nothing was going to deter me from doing it, either.

“…You… you’re right… but I don’t think we should go in by ourselves…”

“Well then you can go and gather the other girls. I can’t risk Ty being in danger, so if I have to, I’ll go alone.”

“B-but Twilight…! You remember the last time you went into the Everfree forest alone at night… don’t you?”

“Yeah. I was turned to stone by a Cockatrice. I have you to thank for saving me, though. And I’m a lot more prepared for the perils of walking through that place than I was back then. If anything, I’ll head straight to Zecora’s and ask her if she’d possibly seen anything out of the ordinary before we search the forest for him… there’s no time left! Go! Get Rainbow Dash, get the others, and meet me at Zecora’s hut.”

“…O-okay…” Fluttershy meekly stated before taking off, her pet snake coiled atop her mane. I didn’t wait until she was out of my line of sight before I turned around and made a mad dash towards the Everfree forest.

“I hope you’re okay… Please, PLEASE be okay…”

“Hey… thanks for your help…” I weakly said as I looked around the house I was led into. All kinds of voodoo masks, potions, and a lot of other mythical objects I’d only ever heard of existing in African culture in my world… Of course, I had to crouch and duck-walk to get inside, as my arms were still constricted by the vine.

“Thanks, you need not give to me. Who are you? What are you doing in the Everfree?” asked my rescuer as she searched a nearby drawer. It was a zebra, feminine by voice, with gold rings on her neck and forelegs. Her eyes were sharp and a lukewarm blue. She had all the looks of a zebra back on Earth, but she also had this sun-shaped swirly Cutie Mark on her flank... At least, I THINK it's a Cutie Mark... She had a thick African accent, too.

“My name is…” I hesitated.

“Is tellin’ this zebra my name safe? I suppose it doesn’t matter anyhow, as she’d probably not seen me in pony form… Besides, she did invite me int’ her house…”

“My name is Ty… I… was dragged here. By some strange, malicious ponies… they… they stole my energy… and they’re plannin' on doin' something bad t' the Princess… what's your name, by the way?” The zebra gasped in horror as she pulled out a brown vial with a cork in it.

“Oh dear. That’s quite severe! But Celestia should have nothing to fear,” she assured as she opened the vial and dripped some strange mud-colored liquid onto the vine. Almost instantly, the vine shriveled up, wilted, and then turned to dust, allowing me to finally stretch my chafed, aching arms. “And Zecora is the name that I go by. It’s quite the pleasure to meet you, Ty!”

“Heh, nice t’ meet you too, Zecora. But I’m… not so sure Celestia should be the one t’ be worried jus’ yet… they aren’t headed directly for her. They want Twi…” At that moment, I realized I had the chance to warn her before it was too late. “Twilight! I have to find my way back to Ponyville. Can you—! Agh!” I winced as I tried to get up. My head was still throbbing vigorously and various parts of my body were extremely sore, forcing me back to a sitting position.

“You are injured; you need time to rest. I know the moment is urgent, but it’s for the best. In addition, I must assure that you are not a threat. Equestria is not your land of origin, I’d bet.”

“No… I’m not originally from Equestria. I can explain the details t’ you later. But please understand that if I don’t get back and tell her now, I don’t know WHAT they’ll do to h—!”

*KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK*

“Who’s rapping at my door at a time so late? Excuse me for a moment while I investigate…” I took note of how this zebra mare liked to rhyme everything she spoke. Nonetheless, she trotted to the door and opened it to reveal a familiar, yet unbelievably distraught-looking face. The visitor seemed really bent out of shape. Her mane was frizzy and disheveled, her eyes were wide with what seemed to be terror, and she’d had spots of dirt along her coat. “Twilight Sparkle! How do you do? Is there any way that I can help you?”

“Good evening… Zecora… hah…” she was out of breath, seeming to have run here. “I’m sorry to bother you at a time like this, but… have you seen or heard… TY???” she instantly noticed me sitting on the floor as she walked in.

“Hey… didn’t expect t’ see you of all ponies here…” The unicorn charged at me and tackled me. I fell to the floor and hit my head, much to my dismay. Nonetheless, I welcomed the unicorn’s hug. After a few seconds, she pulled back. However, rather than seeing a face of joy, I saw one of EXTREME dissatisfaction.

*SMACK*

“OW! AAAaah…! Damn…!” I grasped my aching head in agony as the unicorn made my headache ten times worse.

“How could you have me so worried like that!?” she screamed at me, seeming to be holding back tears. “I spent ALL DAY looking for you! I told you to stay put at the library!”

“Easy now… I thought I left you that letter sayin’ where I was goin’…”

“Yeah. You went to Fluttershy’s. Speaking of which…”

*SLAP*

“OUCH! What was THAT for!?”

“Because you made Fluttershy cry, you jerk!”

“I… what?” Then I realized… Fluttershy must’ve been pretty dejected after the way I’d left her earlier… but I didn’t know how to explain myself to Twilight on that matter. I’m pretty sure she didn’t know why the poor yellow pegasus was crying. Still, I owed Fluttershy an apology. “Oh… yeah, about that… I owe her a HUGE apology… I only left her so abruptly beca—!”

“She has a crush on you.”

“I think she li—! Wait… what???”

“She likes you… or at least, in pony form, she does. But I have myself to blame for that. For that misguided Hearth’s Warming prank Rainbow and I pulled on you…”

“Ha! What goes around comes around…” I was tempted to laugh, considering that mean-spirited joke found a way to bite her in the flank, but there was something much more important at hand.

“That brings about this question… why are you in human form? I gave you enough magic to last you the next two days under the transformation.”

“Yyyyea, about that… Remember that guy Celestia told us about when she first wanted me outta here? The one in the east that tried to take over two countries at once?”

“Yeah…?”

“Well uh… he escaped from his prison and found his way here... He has this mare helpin' 'im and he stole the magic you gave me. He… he says he’s gonna get his revenge on Celestia for ruinin' his original plot…” Twilight gasped in complete and utter horror.

“WHAT??” she frantically asked as she leapt from my grasp. “No no no no no… this is bad. REALLY bad… wait a second: Who am I kidding? Celestia’s all-powerful! Plus, she’s got tons of protection surrounding her at all times! How could she possibly be in any danger?”

“Right now, she’s not… WE— specifically you— are…” Twilight gasped in shock again.

“What do you mean??”

“The reason that guy found me is because he said he was watchin’ me since he got here two or three months ago. He knew from the get-go that somethin’ was up with me. Today jus’ happened t’ be the day he chose t’ act on his suspicion. He left me stranded in the woods, but not before mentionin’ somethin’ about usin’ you t’ get to Celestia. I don’t think he accounted for our friend here rescuin’ me though…” I explained, gesturing toward the zebra, who looked completely lost. I didn’t blame her. This was a LOT of information to overhear. “Either way, I think he went somewhere else, thinkin’ of a way t’ try an’ capture you. And considerin’ he has some of your energy— and maybe a small amount o’ my own— at his disposal, it might not be a good idea takin’ him an’ his accomplice on straight-up.”

“Oh my… I… I refuse to let that happen! Whoever this scoundrel is… he won’t get away with anything he’s doing! I… WE have to make sure of that!”

*knock knock*

“I’d like to be filled in on this perilous tale. And make absolutely sure that evil does not prevail…” commented the zebra as she moved to answer the door. In came five recognizable mares: an orange Earth pony with blond, ponytailed hair and a cowgirl hat, a blue pegasus with rainbow-colored hair, a white Unicorn with dark purple, swirly hair, a pink Earth pony with hair that resembled cotton candy, and last but not least, a yellow pegasus with long, straight pink hair. As I could’ve expected, the five of them froze in collective fear and shock at the sight of me, huddling together and backing away towards the door.

"Aww shit..."

“What the heck is THAT thing??” asked Pinkie Pie in complete surprise.

“It’s enormous! And it looks so… horrifying!” added Rarity, much to my offense.

“I wouldn’t say ‘horrifying…’” Rainbow Dash countered. “It just looks like… kind of like a monkey. A really huge, mostly hairless monkey… with clothes… and no tail… huh...”

“Is this some kinda result o’ some potion you made, Zecora? I don’t reckon I’ve seen anythin’ like this thing before…” pondered Applejack.

“I… think it’s… kind of cute for how big it is…” admitted Fluttershy, to the combined shock of the other four mares.

“Why thank you, Fluttershy. Gee, at least ONE o’ you thinks I don’t look ugly…” I remarked. Again, the group stared at me, seeming to register the sound of my voice.

“H-how do you kn-know my name??” The yellow pegasus asked in total fear, petrified where she stood.

“I’mma give you a hint: Fruit Salad. As in, we ate some fruit salad together earlier today. Y’know, after I helped you with your animals.”

“F-fruit sal…” Once the bells rang in Fluttershy’s pretty little head, her eyes widened to the size of dinner plates while her irises and pupils shrunk nearly to the sizes of decimal points. “TY????”