Chapter 14: Blame It on Fluttershy

The sun was on the verge of beginning to set, and the walk had been most lovely through the streets of Las Pegasus. The working day was almost over and the nightlife was soon to take the reins on the city that never sleeps. The six girls plus one guy were talking amongst each other jovially and pointing out several locations that they were sure to visit during their trip. Either way, today could be considered a good day so far: Beautiful weather and consequently warm temperature, nice company, and a happening city. The nice walk ended soon enough, however, when they strolled up to the front of a rather large furnished wood building. Lights were all on inside and plenty of noise from conversation and games were going on. The seven stopped to take in the sight.

"The Slippery Rack… ummm… well then," Twilight commented and grimaced at the unusual name of the tavern. The innuendo is strong with this one.

"Well, while I agree it has a rather lewd name I assure you it seems to be quite a happening place!" Rarity chimed in.

"Yeah, I suppose so. Could use a nice pint'o cider," AJ commented, adjusting her stetson.

"And there's games!" Pinkie shouted gleefully before strutting inside with purpose. The others took that as an invitation to follow her lead, thus they entered into the establishment with high hopes for the evening. AJ, however, was still stuck in her position, as if deep in thought. Rarity stopped in her tracks and turned around to face her.

"Everything alright, Applejack?" she asked, walking up to her.

"Yeah, everythin's finer than a freshly made apple fritter, but Ah can't help but get a feelin' that tonight's gon' be really… interestin'," she replied. Rarity managed a small smile with a shrug.

"Well, I suppose that might be for the better then, will it not? Better interesting in any manner of the word than boring in my opinion. Now come along, let's get a nice drink, you and I," Rarity countered, urging Applejack along to which she complied instantly, happy to be with her friend.

They found a suitable table amongst the large crowd and then some split off to do their own thing. Applejack found solace at the bar with Rarity, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie joined some games of pool and darts while Fluttershy and Twilight stayed with Helmuth at the table, the latter going up towards the counter to order food for everyone. He returned about ten minutes later.

"Alright, ladies, I've got chips, salsa, tons of chicken fingers (A/N: Humans, therefore meat. Not important. Deal with it) and a shit-load of fries. Dig in!" he exclaimed happily, more than content to have food in front of him. He checked before-hand and the girls who weren't present decided to grab their own food. So for now, Helm was sharing dinner with Twilight and Fluttershy which was just fine with him. As of right now, Twilight and he were engaging in some intellectual conversation. Fluttershy chimed in once in a while, but mostly stayed out of it, considering she had no idea what was really being said. That didn't bother her much though. She was mostly a girl of few words anyways, and in all honesty she liked when her friends talked more than she did, preferring to just be in the loving embrace of their presence. Besides, she'd have plenty of other opportunities to talk to Helmuth.

"…but what if the transform isn't like one of those discussed? I hate it when they do that," Twilight exclaimed with frustration.

"So one might think, but that's just it. It almost certainly is the Laplace Transform of the equation, but merely shifted. Some algebra via partial fractions usually solves the problem," Helmuth replied back, shoving a few fries into his face.

Twilight became more enthralled by their conversation, so Fluttershy decided to quietly excuse herself. She'd let the two of them have their time for now. She decided to join Rarity and AJ at the bar area and secure a tiny drink for herself. She noticed, however, that she was receiving a few flirtatious stares from many of the men in attendance. Some were polite nods of acknowledgement, while others were a bit more… inappropriate. Yes, her confidence had compounded fivefold, but Fluttershy was never one for attention. Maybe wearing a tight but comfortable short sleeved shirt wasn't a good idea. Instead of cowering under the gazes, she merely shrugged them off this time.

Score: 1 for me. Meekness, you're a twat.

"Fluttershy, Darling! Come join us for a drink!" Rarity waved her down, Applejack also beckoning her. Fluttershy smiled back and joined them on one of the barstools.

"Whatever she would like, good sir. It's on me," Rarity said to the bartender with a nice smile. Who could resist that smile anyway from someone like Rarity?

"What'll it be, beautiful?" he asked sincerely.

Don't blush DON'T BLUSH… ugh! You win this time, meekness.

"Ummm… Mango Margarita please and ummm… sugar on the rim if you don't mind," Fluttershy ordered her drink with a light blush. He nodded and turned away to make her drink, and at that moment she snapped her fingers, shook her head and mouthed 'damn' in defeat. And she was getting pretty good about the shyness too. After some small conversation with the two girls, Fluttershy received her drink and took some cautious sips of it. Her eyes beamed.

"Oh wow this is delicious!" she exclaimed with a smile.

"Well then, since we're satisfied right now, I propose a toast," Rarity said while raising her glass, which looked like a martini.

"To Friendship, Love, and Harmony!"

"To Friendship, Love, and Harmony," Fluttershy and Applejack replied before they all clinked their glasses together and gently downed their drinks. Soon, conversation started up again:

"So, how're ya girls fairin' with Helm over there?" Applejack asked, motioning with her head towards Helmuth and Twilight still animatedly talking about… whatever they were talking about. They noticed that they were sitting next to each other rather than across. Smooth move.

"Oh I'm not too worried about that, darling. After all, it's friendly competition. Let her have her fun. We'll get our chance eventually… and I know just what to do…" she said, finishing her statement with a devious grin. The other two could only imagine what she was planning.

"Yeah Ah suppose so," AJ said, deep in thought as to how she would even pursue this. She definitely was interested in him… or she wasn't the element of honesty.

"Indeed," Fluttershy said nonchalantly, finishing off her margarita. Conversation continued as normal until AJ and Rarity decided on a raunchier subject, and to be honest Fluttershy wasn't too terribly comfortable participating in that in a public setting. She kindly excused herself to go find Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie. Standing up, she scouted the game area which was filled with (mainly) men, some of who had been drinking a bit too much, and easily found the Rainbow and Pink-haired girls holding Pool cues. Almost instantly, the two locked eyes with Fluttershy and they waved her over. The pink-haired beauty sighed in contentment as she began to walk over, ready to enjoy some lighthearted games with her friends and any other possibly pleasurable company.

As if a force existed in the universe whose sole purpose was to ruin every pleasurable moment, a few words snapped 'Shy out of her contented stride:

"Well helloooo there, sexy!"

Why?! Seriously… why?! For what reason am I subjected to this?!

Fluttershy turned to find a modest looking man, taller than her and with an athletic build and snapback on. However, she could smell the alcohol and douchebaggery on him and it was obvious to the untrained eye that he was a bit beyond sober… her eyes trained from witnessing her friends mingle with alcohol over the years.

"Umm… hi there?" she asked, still not wanting to seem too rude at first. After all, he was slightly inhibited. Even so, she expressed via body language that she had places to go, people to see… literally.

"Sooo, can I get the hottie a little drinky?" he asked almost seriously. Fluttershy thought she was going to hurl at that remark.

"Yeah… how about 'no thank you?'" she replied with mild sarcasm, but turning him down (not harshly either). She continued to walk past him until she felt something firmly grab ahold of her wrist in a drunken stupor of denial and broken dreams; an enormous violation of her personal space and integrity, in her point of view.

Yeah, I don't think so.

By pure reflex she spun around and lightly shoved her fingers into the soft crevice between the offending guy's windpipe and collar bone, instantaneously cutting off 90% of his air intake and forcing him back involuntarily, much to his apparent shock. Not an attack, but universal language for: "Fuck the fuck off."

"I said 'no!' Don't touch me again," Fluttershy said with a very apparent edge of ire. She was genuinely happy and in a beautiful mood; she would be damned if someone ruined this for her. Rainbow Dash had been watching the spectacle, and she nudged Pinkie to take a look. They were ready to step in if necessary but they kept their distance to avoid making a scene… for now.

The offending guy (henceforth referred to as "Twat") processed this for a minute in his drunken state and then smiled.

"Oooh… oh okay… okay… okay! I see, playing hard to get now," he replied, almost flat out refusing rejection in his state, thus ,he advanced forward on her again, slowly. "And ya won't be saying that when you sit on my hard cock and—AH!" Fluttershy gently but firmly forced him back involuntarily (again) by planting her palm in his face and pushing her index and ring finger into his eyes. When he adjusted to the third rejection, Fluttershy fixed a cold stare on him before turning and going towards her initial destination.

"Listen, you're smokin' and I'm just trying to get my dick wet, and I know you want some of this!" Fluttershy was dangerously close to snapping. She was tired of warning him and if he continued with more aggressive advances she'd have no choice.

Maybe if I ignore the problem, it will go away…

"Hey, Bitch! I'm talkin' to you!" He almost slurred out in yelling, drawing the attention of many of the attendees, including Rainbow Dash and Pinkie, who never stopped watching the scene.

Oh great… he just has to be the belligerent drunk.

Fluttershy heard heavy and uneven footsteps behind her before Twat grabbed her collarbone on her right side, directly behind her. Everyone has a breaking point… always remember that.

Screw this.

Fluttershy instantly looked over her shoulder and then contorted her torso to the right. She used that momentum to jerk her arm upward, her elbow smashing into his lower jaw and clicking audibly against his maxilla. He easily chipped a couple teeth from the strike and the sound made all activity stop in the bar where one could hear a pin drop. Twat doubled back and grabbed his mouth in sheer agony, pieces of teeth falling into his hands. All of her friends witnessed this and were dumbfounded once more, surprised by the formerly shy beauty. Fluttershy didn't let her guard down. She already gauged him as a belligerent drunk.

"AAAAH!" He screamed in sheer pain, for teeth fucking hurt when broken. "You fucking whore!" he shouted before he signed his hospital admission form by lunging at her with a half punch/slap. However, he was so blinded by drunkenness, rage, pain, and twattery that a handicapped child could have dodged the strike, which Fluttershy did effortlessly. To the shock of every other patron in the establishment, Twat was met with an iron punch directly in the middle of his face, falling backwards and on the brink of unconsciousness, blood pouring from his undoubtedly broken nose. Fluttershy snorted once before shaking her right hand from the impact. While the majority of her friends, including Helmuth, had their hand over their mouths in shock, Rainbow Dash was beaming pride and joy.

"That was my brother you just socked in the face you cunt!" another nigh drunken voice rang out; another equally tool-looking man stepped to the forefront with a beer bottle in his hand, but holding it from the neck in order to use it as a club.

You've got to be shitting me. When did this become socially okay?!

"Can't you all just leave me alone and FUCK OFF?!" Fluttershy yelled out in fury. Her day was unquestionably ruined now. She got into a defensive stance. The girls didn't think they'd ever heard her drop the f-bomb in all of her new rhetoric… so that meant she was pissed. Helmuth looked to Twilight:

"Wait here…" he said before getting up and gently walking towards the confrontation area. However, when he got closer, he immediately became frightened when he saw another guy walk up behind Fluttershy with a magic aura surrounding his hands. She locked eyes with Helmuth and through some instant communication that evades modern scientists to this day, she understood and delivered a powerful heel-kick to the crotch of the encroaching man. The guy with the bottle was about to make his move right then when Helmuth went up to him.

"Excuse me sir, have you change for a five-note?" he said suddenly, holding out a five-bit note in front of him, making the guy avert his eyes for a split second. Utilizing that, Helm planted his fist directly into the side of his face, sending the douche to the ground hard.

Aaaand on the Seventh Day, all hell broke loose.

Someone else went to the ground painfully and a full on bar-fight erupted between no particular group of people at first. Glasses were thrown and smashed, as were bottles. Cries of agony were heard and the sound of bones hitting other skin and bones could audibly be heard. There was a figurative call to arms and Applejack, Twilight, and Rainbow Dash rushed over to Fluttershy. Pinkie was not true brawler with others, so her friends advised her to find solace with Rarity.

"Fluttershy, are you alright?!" Twilight shouted amidst the chaos. The other two rallied to her side, ready for anything. The quickly located Helmuth just in time to see him break out of a choke hold and sock the offender in the gut before smashing a glass on his back.

Just then a bunch of other guys charged towards the four girls with bloodlust, magic, and alcohol brewing together in a disastrous combination. Before the first person could even reach them, a Pool cue encased in a magical aura found its target in the guy's jaw, most likely bruising and or breaking it, sending him to the ground. Rainbow Dash tossed another pool cue to Applejack. As she was catching it, though, a fist found its way to her cheek, making her recoil and cry out in pain.

"Oh FUCK NO!" Twilight shouted. She was not a fighter, physically, but what she did have, was magic. She brightly flared her hands in her aura as a result and magically bound the offender. She then, while manipulating the path with her hands, slammed him into a table, breaking it. She then felt her hands being bounded by an orange magical aura. She turned in alarm to find another female next to her, binding her hands together and about to use her other free hand to strike her in the face with a bottle. Before Twilight could even think of reacting, Fluttershy appeared in front of her and kicked the offending girl's legs out from under her, sending her face-planting into the hard floor.

Applejack recovered instantaneously and managed to pull a rope out of nowhere and lasso another person tightly before swinging him into the counter and then throwing him over. Applejack turned to assist Dashie but only found her beating the living shit out of another lanky looking guy with the pool cue. Some guy was punched by another and forced towards her. She reacted with a crushing stomping kick to the guy's chest, sending him into another cluster of fighting people. She turned just in time to witness Twilight magically launch someone into a wine-rack and RD smash another's nuts with a cue stick.

Helmuth was fighting constantly, sometimes more than two opponents, but was child's play to him. Being one of Luna's personal guards had its perks, especially since he received private training in magic and physical defense outside of his own regiment, from her. In essence, he was just as potent at fighting as Luna herself. He drove his knee into one of his attackers, forcing him off. Before he could react to the person behind him, a bottle flew through the air with the precision of a laser guided missile and smacked directly into the side of the would-be offender's face, breaking in half upon impact and sending the guy to the ground out cold. He turned and nodded thanks to Fluttershy who waved back at him, not before taking a solid hit to her shoulder and face. She fought back with utmost prejudice and made another douchy looking man double over before slamming a palm heel into his face and swinging him into Helmuth. He then took over and tossed the guy out one of the windows, shattering it, before he met up with Fluttershy and returned defending their friends in the enormous chaos. Discord would be very proud.

Several police vehicles showed up and cordoned off the street. They were called when the fight erupted immediately and arrived about seven minutes later due to traffic. They surrounded the building but noticed no fighting outside, save for the one dude that was knocked out from when Helmuth threw him out. The audible sounds of brawling could be heard though. Before the officers stepped forward, a Rainbow Haired girl burst through another window, shattering the glass, and landing hard on the sidewalk. It was very apparent that she was thrown out. Taking the officers completely by surprise again, she got up instantly (albeit with several bruises and small cuts on her) and marched back into the fray. Ten seconds later, another male body was thrown out by said Rainbow-haired girl.

The Police had enough and stormed into the building, witnessing the carnage of KO'd people and property damage, not to mention the alcohol everywhere. They were even more surprised to see a bunch of colorful-haired and beat up girls kicking the shit out of everything that dared oppose them. Eventually, they got their composure.

"POLICE! EVERYONE FREEZE WITH THEIR HANDS UP, ALL MAGIC ADEPTS BIND YOUR HANDS TOGETHER!" An officer shouted through a megaphone, all of them unholstering their weapons just in case. Everyone complied immediately, including the girls plus Helmuth, the chaos ceasing instantaneously.

*Las Pegasus Police Station*

Applejack, Helmuth, Twilight, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy sat together in a booking area with stoic expressions on their faces. What a night… to say the least. Helmuth recalled sending almost fifteen people to the floor, but he got his fair share of bruises here and there, mostly from countering, due to his military training. Applejack received a shiner on her cheek, on top of her clutching her exposed belly in pain, the muscle clearly bruised. She also sported a few small cuts on her arms. Twilight received a few magical burns on her wrists from being bound by aggressive magic, on top of a swollen ear, several small cuts, and a bruise on her right breast… and that hurt like a bitch; on top of suffering from very minor magical exhaustion. Fluttershy had a scraped elbow, a lightly bleeding elbow, and a bruised upper sternum from when a fist knocked her to the ground. She was lucky it hit there, considering her breasts were… much larger. That would have been terrible. Rainbow Dash had more bruises than everyone, especially from being struck by a few cue balls and, of course, being thrown out of the window. They were beat up, but the scoreboard definitely said they won.

They were taken to the police station because it was soon discovered that the fight erupted technically when Fluttershy drove her elbow into Twat's jaw. While it was in self-defense, the Police still had to take them down for further questioning, some medical treatment, and to properly file a report on casualty: people and property. They had been sitting there for about an hour and a half, the time being close to nine at night, until the door opened. An officer stepped through, followed by Pinkie and Rarity, who really had no part in the brawling, and by someone else dressed in full military garb: Luna. From the look on her face, that stoic, commanding look, she had been told everything.

"They're free to go under your supervision, Princess. They're not in trouble but I advise that they refrain from causing any from this point on," the officer stated. Luna nodded.

"Thank you, Officer," she stated coolly before turning her irritated gaze to the five of them.

"So, I get out of a meeting that was dragged out longer than it should have been, to be contacted by Rarity and Pinkie… telling me that the five of you are at the Police Station because of an enormous barfight…" she said, clearly frustrated and full of ire. She then leaned forward.

"We are not amused, mine faithful subjects," Luna said coldly, using the royal 'We' as well as archaic grammar. They were in for it when they returned. Luna beckoned them all to follow her back to the hotel room. No words were spoken the entire way back, and Helmuth didn't object when Fluttershy and Twilight huddled into him.

The door to their expansive suite opened and they filed in one after the other. Luna came in last and closed the door before slowly turning her gaze to her friends. They, with the exception of Rarity and Pinkie (who wore looks of concern, more so) had looks of fear on them, as well as shame. Especially Fluttershy. Luna's scowl softened very slowly until it became a straight face… which made way into a grin… which then turned into a bright smile and then deafening laughter. She literally fell on the floor laughing.

"That… is the funnies thing I have heard almost… ever! All of you in a barfight?! HAHAHA! I needed this lau—hahaha!" Luna continued rolling laughing. The others were completely dumbstruck. They expected her to chew them out for not being civil and acting too brash.

"L-Luna? Aren't you mad?" Fluttershy asked meekly. Luna giggled again.

"You actually thought I was serious?! I could never be mad at you girls and Helm, especially since Fluttershy had to elbow some ruffian in the gob for trying to fondle her! I just had to keep up an image as a Princess, lest I be seen as too lenient," Luna said, regaining her composure but still smiling. The others were visibly relieved at her expression and they understood fully. Now that the relief washed over them, all were horrendously tired.

"But, we can talk about it tomorrow, everyone. I propose we get some rest. I'm tired, and I'm sure you're all absolutely exhausted. Get some rest. No ifs, ands, or buts. Goodnight," Luna said, tossing her military hat into her room before disappearing. The girls plus Helm all said their respective goodnights before retiring to their rooms with haste… all essentially asleep before they hit the pillow, wallowing in their injuries and the experience of a lifetime. Luna chuckled one more time at the thought before drifting off to sleep.

"Damnit, Fluttershy…"