My Little Pony Friendship is Magic: A Friend in Deed
A/N: Welcome back, MLP fans, for the next installment of this story. So, let's see how Fluttershy is doing.
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Disclaimer: I don't own anything from My Little Pony: Magic is Friendship. I just own any and all characters that I just happen create.
CHAPTER TWO: MEET IRON WILL
After trying and failing to find a cherry, Fluttershy returned home, just barely missing a black goat leaving her front door and fixed the salad with the ingredients she managed to purchase while Angel seated himself at the table and tied on a bib.
"Ta-da!" she said, setting the bowl before her pet bunny. "Here you go, Angel. Sorry there's no cherry on top, but the rest of it is exactly what you wanted," she added when he compared the salad to the photo in the cookbook. "Angel?" She gulped when he scowled at her, and then he tossed both her and the salad out the front door.
The yellow pegasus grunted when she collided with the mailbox and landed on the ground, the mail falling out and fluttering down around her. "Look at me… I really ama doormat," she said with a disappointed sigh when a pamphlet landed on her head. Opening it, she read the contents. "'The incredible Iron Will turns doormats into dynamos. Assertiveness seminar today, hedge maze centre.'"
She stood up, feeling determined. "As Celestia is my witness, I'm never gonna be a pushover again!" she vowed.
Later that same day, Fluttershy went to the Hedge Maze, which she hadn't been to since the incident with Discord months ago, and so she was very nervous when she entered it. Finding other ponies from Ponyville attending the seminar, she felt better and followed them into the center.
The yellow pegasus became nervous again when she passed a stern-looking white goat and entered to find a large stage had been set up, and a large number of ponies. Swallowing, she went to the front row to join the ponies for the best view.
"Oh! Ah! Uh… excuse me!" she said politely, but when she went sit down, she ended up being kicked over the audience and into the very back with a loudthump! Sitting up and rubbing her sore head, she squinted at the stage as the music from Rocky started playing.
On stage, the goats bleated to each other as they aimed the lights toward the front of the stage and fireworks exploded. The ponies began cheering as a blue/gray Minotaur with light gray horns, dark blue hair, and black eyes appeared on the stage, and kissed his own muscles before speaking into the earpiece's microphone so that the audience could hear him.
"Welcome, friends!" he called out, sounding like a cross between Hulk Hogan and Mr. T. "My name is Iron Will, and today is the first day of your new life! I wanna hear you stomp if you're tired of being a pushover!" And he beamed as the ponies stomped and cheered. "Stomp if you're tired of being a doormat!" And there was more stomping and cheering. "Stomp if you wanna pay nothing for this seminar!"
The ponies stopped their stomping and their cheering slowed, turning into general confusion, and then laughter.
"That's no joke, friends," Iron Will announced, now referring himself in the third person. "Iron Will is so confident that you will be one hundred percent satisfied with Iron Will's assertiveness techniques, that if you are not one hundred percent satisfied, you. Pay. Nothing. But I pity the fool who doubts Iron Will's methods! You don't doubt me, do you?" he demanded, hopping onto the back of two of the goats to start at Meadow Song.
"Uh-uh, no sir…" Meadow Song stammered and there was general agreement among the ponies.
Pleased, Iron Will hopped back onto the stage and faced the audience. "That, my friends, is your first lesson," he informed them. ""Don't be shy; look 'em in the eye."" He let the ponies chatter a bit before he continued, pacing. "Now, to demonstrate that Iron Will's techniques will work for anypony, I'm gonna need a volunteer."
Almost immediately every pony raised their hoof to be chosen. All except for Fluttershy, who gulped and duck down, hoping not to be seen. Unfortunately, the goats were scanning the crowd and one of them almost tripped over the yellow pegasus, and he called out to the Stage Manager, who bleated to their boss.
Hearing about the hiding pegasus, Iron Will called out. "You in the back row!"
And the audience split in half to reveal Fluttershy, who looked up and flushed when she saw that everypony was staring at her. "Who, me?" she asked.
"Yes, you!" Iron Will bellowed. "Iron Will wants you onstage!"
The yellow pegasus gulped. "Uh, well…"
"Now!"
"Okay," Fluttershy whispered and made her way around the audience, taking the longest route possible. Reaching the stage, she walked across, only to have one of the goats block her way, and when she tried to move around him, he kept moving to block her.
Iron Will chuckled, seeing this pegasus as a pushover. "Whoaa! He's blocking your path," he remarked. "What are you gonna do about it?"
"Um, politely walk around him?" the yellow pegasus suggested.
Iron Will shook his head. "No."
"Gingerly tip-toe around him?"
"No!"
"Go back home and try again tomorrow?" Fluttershy finally suggested, wishing that she was back home.
"No!" Iron Will shouted and walked around so that he was behind the yellow pegasus. ""When somepony tries to block, show them that you rock!"" He then kicked her so that she knocked the goat over.
Fluttershy gasped and quickly got up while the goat was lying on his back. "Oh! Sorry."
"Don't be sorry!" Iron Will scolded. "Be assertive! "Never apologize when you can criticize."" He cleared throat and bellowed at the goat. "Why don't you watch where you're going!? Now, you try."
Nervously, Fluttershy turned to the goat. "Uh… next time, get out of the way before… I bump into you, 'cause… I totally won't be sorry when I do!" she shrieked, startling herself and the goat, who quickly bolted.
Realizing that he had a real money-maker on his hooves, Iron Will picked the yellow pegasus up by one foreleg. "You see my friends!?" he called out to the amazed audience. "If my techniques can work for this shy, little pony, then they can work for anypony!"
The crowd cheered and Fluttershy, who'd been uncertain, began smiling as they started chanting her name.
A/N: Who! Are we going to be seeing a new Fluttershy? Well, you all will have to wait until Thursday to find out for sure. Bye for now! R&R everyone!
