Agent Fluttershy
Sweet little Fluttershy, as meek as can be.
Though a more confident future she'd love to see.
But when a stranger comes knocking she'll have to try
To go from meek little pony to double 0 spy.
Teehee-LOL-Haha-SNORT!
It was a perfectly peaceful day at Fluttershy's cottage. The birds were singing. The buzzards were buzzing. A bear was scrubbing his back with a loofa in a nearby stream.
And inside the cottage Fluttershy herself was laying on the couch engrossed in a book. What kind of book you ask? A cook book for critter friendly recipes? A book on how to knit little cozies for the inside of a beaver dams?
"Agent Sparkle Bloom leapt from the top of the building, soaring towards the roof of the run down factory where she knew her evil nemesis was hiding."
Or was it perhaps something more…surprising?
You see Fluttershy had a secret that few others knew about. While she seemed like the kind of pony who would never go for anything more eventful than a lotus soak at the spa, this critter loving pony had a secret love…for spy novels.
Not just any spy novels, mind you, but specifically "The Adventures of Agent Sparkle Bloom."
It had all started about a month ago when she went to Twilight's library to get a book on proper brushing techniques for butterfly wings.
Ya know, 'cause that's how Fluttershy rolls.
Through a bizarre set of circumstances involving one of Twilight's spells going horribly wrong and Spike accidently setting the curtains on fire (Different story. Move along.) Fluttershy had accidently grabbed a book from the wrong section.
She had intended to return it once she realized her mistake, but after just a few pages she was irrevocably hooked. The book told the tale of a shy, young mare forcibly drawn into the world of espionage after her lifelong puppy companion was arrested for a crime he didn't commit.
As you can see the connection was almost instant.
Fluttershy admired everything about Agent Sparkle Bloom. She was shy like her, yet when it was time to be a spy she overcame all her fears and became a bold, confident secret agent that never let anything, no matter how scary, stop her. Oh, how Fluttershy wished she could be more like Sparkle Bloom.
BOOM!
Fluttershy YELPED and ducked behind the couch as the front door suddenly slammed open.
She peered over the edge of the couch to see a grey unicorn stallion in a suit and sunglasses standing in the doorway with a briefcase sitting at his side.
"H-hello?" asked Fluttershy.
The grey stallion walked into the room.
"Miss Fluttershy?"
"Y-yes. That's me. Can I—"
"Shhh. Just a moment."
The grey stallion quickly sprinted around the room, closing the door, pulling the blinds over the windows, even going so far as to place a tiny door over all the mouse holes in the room. After a quick inspection of his work he turned to Fluttershy.
"I'm Agent Classified of the Equestrian Secret Service. And we need your help."
"Equestrian Secret Service?" asked the frightened mare.
"We're an elite team of undercover operatives who handle issues that are deemed best kept from public knowledge. In other words..."
He whipped off his sunglasses revealing yet another pair of sunglasses.
"We're spies."
Fluttershy stared. Was there a secret wishing star out that she didn't know about?
Classified quickly set up a screen and slide projector pulled from his briefcase.
"We need your help because a new threat has risen in Equestria that we believe only you can handle."
He used his magic on the slide projector making it cast an image of Ponyville on the screen.
"You see we recently received intel that a notorious villain was planning to take over Ponyville."
The slide switched to the silhouettes of six ponies.
"We sent six of our best agents to investigate the matter, but so far none have returned. We need you to go investigate the rumors and, if they're true, put a stop the villain's evil schemes."
"WHAT?!" shouted Fluttershy. "But why do you need my help?"
"Because," said Classified. "The notorious villain…is a bunny."
The slide switched to an image of a bunny wearing a spiked, purple mask and a dark cape.
Fluttershy GASPED!
"He calls himself Doctor Sinister. If the rumors are true he's discovered a super weapon that he plans to use to help him and his bunny army take over all of Ponyville."
Classified turned off the slide projector.
"That's why we need your help. As both an element of harmony and a pony with the ability to communicate with bunnies you are uniquely qualified for this mission."
"Oh, please, can't you find somepony else?"
"No one else must know about this. If anyone found out there would panic throughout Ponyville. The fate of all Ponyville now rests in your hooves. Will you accept this mission?"
Fluttershy stared, her knees shaking like twigs in a tornado. She couldn't do this! She wasn't a spy! But the fate of all Ponyville was stake! What should she do?!
…
What would Agent Sparkle Bloom do?
Fluttershy looked down at her book. When Sparkle Bloom's puppy friend had been arrested, she had been terrified, but she overcame her fears because she knew that her friend's safety was more important that being scared.
Fluttershy took a deep breath.
"Alright. I'll help."
Classified nodded.
"Excellent. Get ready. I'll be back here in one hour to escort you to the mission site."
Classified backed out the door.
"Until then."
WHAM! He slammed the door.
Fluttershy SHOT up and clung to the ceiling like a frightened cat. Oh, why did she have to make that wish?
Fluttershy stood trembling in the middle of a dark, underground tunnel, a football helmet on her head and a pair of saddle bags across her shoulders.
Agent Classified stood at the edge of a hole in the ceiling looking down at her.
"Just follow this tunnel and you should eventually reach Doctor Sinister's lair."
"A-aren't you going to come with me?" asked Fluttershy nervously.
"No."
"Why not?"
"The reason…" He whipped off his sunglasses revealing yet another pair of sunglasses. "Is classified."
WHAM! A bolder slammed over the entrance hole leaving Fluttershy trapped in the dank, dark tunnel.
Fluttershy looked ahead into the inky abyss before her.
Slowly she moved forward.
"It's okay." said Fluttershy. "You can do this. You are an element of harmony. There's nothing here that can—"
A scuffle echoed in front of her.
"WAH!"
Fluttershy SHOT across the tunnel and hid behind a rock.
She peaked over the edge of the rock only to see an adorable little mole bounding into the middle of the tunnel.
Fluttershy breathed a sigh of relief.
She trotted over to the mole.
"Hey there, little guy. What's your—"
CLICK.
Fluttershy stopped as she looked down to see her front hoof pushing against a small trip wire.
"Oh, no."
FWIP!
"Aaaaaaah!"
Fluttershy ducked as an extremely pointy carrot shot out of the walls.
She scooped up the mole and soared down the tunnel as more and more carrots shot from the walls all around her.
"Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no!"
After what seemed like an eternity of dodging projectile vegetables Fluttershy flew around a corner and into a tunnel crossroads, the last of the carrots narrowly missing her wing.
She sat on the ground, her chest HEAVING for breath.
"C-can't…breathe!"
Fluttershy looked down at the mole that was currently struggling for breath in her frightened death grip.
She quickly released him.
"Oh! I'm so sorry."
The mole chattered angrily before bounding away.
Fluttershy stared after him for a moment, mentally noting to bring him some apology cookies later.
"Mwahahahahaaa!"
Fluttershy turned her head down the other side of the tunnel where an orange light emanated from up ahead.
Slowly, she crept down the tunnel until she came to the edge of a large cavern.
Inside the cavern stood dozens and dozens and dozens of bunnies! Oooooh, they would have been so CUTE!
If they weren't all wearing black masks and staring up at a large, purple throne covered in spikes that is.
"Welcome, my brothers and sisters, to the beginning of the END of Ponyville!"
The purple throne swiveled around to reveal—
"Doctor Sinister!" whispered Fluttershy.
And indeed it was! There on the throne sat Doctor Sinister, dressed in his spiked, purple mask and dark cape just like in Agent Classified's slide show.
Doctor Sinister got to his feet as he addressed the adorable yet terrifying crowd.
"Today, my army, we launch our attack on Ponyville." He chattered in bunny language. "For too long they've horded the best apples, carrots, and lettuce for themselves while we've had to make do with their second rate produce! But no longer thanks to our new, secret weapon: The Sinister Stone!"
He gestured to a large, purple and orange diamond sitting on a pedestal.
"With this stone's magic powers we will be able to transform from normal bunnies into SUPER bunnies! Stronger than any earth pony! Faster than any Pegasus! Immune to the magic of unicorns! We will be unstoppable! We shall subdue the insolent ponies, and take the best of all their fruits and vegetables for ourselves!"
Fluttershy stared in horror as the crowd of bunnies cheered. As the resident animal-lover of Ponyville she should have known if the bunnies were unhappy! Oh, how could she have let this happen?!
The butter yellow mare was so transfixed by the scene that she didn't notice the two bunny soldiers clinging to the ceiling above her until it was too late.
The bunny soldiers LEAPT from the ceiling, and tackled the pink haired Pegasus to the ground.
"Aah!" cried Fluttershy.
"What was that?!" bellowed Sinister.
The two bunny soldiers carried a hogtied Fluttershy into the cavern. Fluttershy smiled nervously up at Sinister.
"Oh, um, hello?"
"A spy!" cried the villain. "Sent to stop our master plan. To the badger pits!"
The bunny army cheered as they carried Fluttershy away into a dark, foreboding tunnel.
"Um, are you sure we can't talk this out over some nice carrot tea?" asked Fluttershy nervously.
The bunnies cheered as the timid pony hung upside down over a pit of snarling honey badgers.
Doctor Sinister stood in a confident pose as he glared at Fluttershy from the edge of the pit.
"You're Fluttershy, the element of kindness." said the evil bunny. "Yet how unkind it was to try to ruin our plans when we're so close to victory!"
"Oh, can't you let me go?"
"NO! We do not tolerate spies, Agent Fluttershy, so I'm afraid you must be eliminated. This wench," he said gesturing to a wooden pulley system. "will slowly lower you down to my vicious, little companions who have been doused in our special, secret recipe anger potion."
He pointed to the opposite side of the pit where two bunny soldiers sprinkled a red liquid down onto the honey badgers.
"Once you reach the bottom of the pit my rage filled friends will tear you to tiny, lemon colored shreds! And it'll be bye bye Fluttershy. Mwahahahaha!"
The entire bunny army laughed as Fluttershy gulped nervously.
"Now away, my army! To victory!"
The army cheered as they rushed from the room.
Doctor Sinister pushed the lever on the pulley system then hopped away laughing maniacally.
Fluttershy looked down at the pit of enraged badgers.
"Please, little badgers. You don't really wanna hurt me, do you? Aah!"
Fluttershy screamed as a badger jumped up and swiped a razor sharp claw inches from her face.
Oh, what was she to do?! She wasn't like Agent Sparkle Bloom! She wasn't a spy! But if she didn't stop the bunny army then a whole bunch of people could get really hurt! Including the bunnies!
…No. She couldn't let that happen.
She may not be Agent Sparkle Bloom, but she was Fluttershy, friend of animals and element of kindness. And whether she liked it or not it was up to her to stop Doctor Sinister's plans and keep the good people of Ponyville safe.
She knew what she had to do.
Fluttershy turned towards the slowly encroaching badgers with a determined look.
"Alright. I didn't wanna have to do this, but you leave me no choice."
Fluttershy closed her eyes, mustering all her strength…
And then gave the badgers…The Stare!
The badgers looked up into Fluttershy's mighty eyes, their anger quickly quelled by her forceful gaze!
"Now, untie me this instant!" commanded Fluttershy.
Meekly the badgers jumped up onto Fluttershy and cut the ropes with their claws.
Fluttershy smiled as she landed on the ground in the middle of the badger pit.
"Thank you very much."
She flew to the edge of the pit and opened her saddle bags. From inside she produced a big bushel of carrots and tossed them to the badgers.
"This will make you feel better after all you went through with that mean old anger potion, and the rope will help you all get out of that nasty pit."
The badgers chattered in thanks as they took carrots in their mouths and climbed up the rope which had bound Fluttershy only moments before.
As the badgers scurried to freedom Fluttershy turned towards the tunnel where Doctor Sinister and his army had fled to pursue their evil plot.
And Fluttershy wasn't about to let them get away.
Doctor Sinister and his army stood before the Sinister Stone.
"Now is the time, my army! Now is the time to conquer Ponyville!"
He turned to the side of the room where six ponies wearing suits with black hoods over their heads struggled upside down.
"And how fortunate we are to have guests from Equestrian Secret Service to witness our ultimate triumph. Now, begin the ancient dance!"
The bunnies lined up in front of the stone.
"A five, six, seven, eight!"
Music blared across the cavern as the bunnies performed an ancient dance that was…surprisingly similar to disco.
As the bunnies shook their groove thangs the Sinister Stone floated up above the pedestal and crackled with magical energy.
"Yes! It's working!" shouted Doctor Sinister. "Soon, it shall be fully charged and then all of Ponyville will be ours!"
"Not so fast!"
Everyone turned towards the entrance to the cavern where none other than Fluttershy stood boldly facing the bunny army.
"Agent Fluttershy! But how?!"
"That's not important. What is important is that you stop this nonsense this instant!"
"Never! Continue the dance!"
The bunny army discoed even faster than before.
"Alright. Then you leave me no choice!"
Fluttershy SHOT off the ground and through the air.
"Stop her!"
The bunny army chucked carrots at Fluttershy.
Fluttershy flew through the air, bobbing and weaving as she narrowly avoided the carrots.
She soared right over the bunny army and SNATCHED the Sinister Stone right out of the air.
"No!" cried Doctor Sinister.
"This is for you own good!" exclaimed Fluttershy. She raised the Sinister Stone high above her head.
And SMASHED it right down onto the ground.
BOOM!
A BURST of magical energy filled the room, swirling outwards in a spiraling vortex.
Fluttershy landed on the ground, backing fearfully away from the mystic vortex.
The magical energy in the stone slowly drew inwards, forming into a solid shape before a blinding EXPLOSION of light filled the cavern.
Fluttershy shielded her eyes.
Slowly, she peered over her hoof to see none other than—
"DISCORD?!"
Discord stood smiling right in the middle of where the Sinister Stone had been smashed.
"Surprise!"
BOOM!
All around the cave confetti cannons EXPLODED causing confetti to rain down on everyone present.
All the bunny soldiers cheered, waving their adorable paws in the air.
"But-But-I don't understand!"
"I think we can explain that." said an all too familiar voice from the behind her.
Fluttershy turned around to see the six captured Equestrian Secret Service agents standing with the black bags still on their heads. One of the agents pulled off their bag to reveal-
"Twilight?!"
And indeed it was! There, dressed in the secret agent suit, stood Twilight. One by one all the other agents pulled off their hoods revealing Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie, Rarity, and Starlight Glimmer all smiling happily at Fluttershy.
"You see," said Twilight. "Discord knew how much you loved the Agent Sparkle Bloom book I leant you, so he devised this whole scenario as a big surprise just for you!"
"Right she is, Flutterbuddy!" exclaimed Discord as he popped up behind Fluttershy. "I wanted you to have the full spy experience! Booby traps, hanging over a pit of doom, and, the piece de resistance, facing off with an evil, if not somewhat melodramatic, villain!"
He gestured to Doctor Sinister. The nefarious villain quickly pulled off his mask revealing—
"Angel?!"
Geez. So many reveals.
"Corrrrrectamundo!" said Discord. "Angel and I planned the whole thing together! We got very good at charades."
Weeks Earlier
Discord sat on the floor as Angel went through a series of charade style gestures.
"An activity…Seventeen words…Sounds liiiike…"
Angel did a quick series of gestures.
"Hang Fluttershy over a pit of snarling honey badgers while Doctor Sinister leaves to take over Ponyville!"
Angel nodded eagerly.
"Well, that could mean anything!"
Angel slapped his forehead.
Back to Present
Discord flew over beside Angel and snapped his fingers turning himself into none other than Agent Classified.
"I," said Discord gesturing grandly to himself. "played the role of Agent Classified while Angel played the villainous Doctor Sinister. Originally, I wanted to play the villain, but playing against type seemed like the more chaotic thing to do."
"So, there was never any danger?"asked Fluttershy.
"Of course not!" said Discord. "As if I would let anything happen to my dearest friend. But, even though the danger wasn't real you still faced your fears and acted like an even better spy than that Agent Sparkle Bloom person you love so much."
Fluttershy smiled. "You're right! I was brave, wasn't I?"
"The bravest, my little lemon drop." shouted Discord as he pinched her cheek. "But enough of this sappy 'Moral of the story, friendship is magic' business. Leeet's party!"
Discord snapped causing massive speakers to pop into the room playing loud disco music.
"Who wants cake?!" asked Spike as he strolled into the room pushing a cart with a massive, spy themed cake on top.
All the bunnies raised their paws.
As the party raged on, Fluttershy stared out over the sea of ponies, bunnies, badgers, and other assorted species that she knew and loved.
She couldn't ask for better friends.
Fluttershy walked across the room…Not noticing a dark, cloaked figure watching the festivities from down one of the side tunnels leading into the cavern.
"Hmmm, veeery interesting." said the figure.
The figure backed around the corner and removed her hood revealing none other than Agent Sweetie Drops A.K.A. Bon Bon!
"The mission may not have been real," said Sweetie Drops to herself. "But Fluttershy's skills were still very impressive. I'll keep that in mind…for the future."
With that agent Sweetie Drops slowly trotted down the tunnel, into the shadows and off into the unknown.
THE END?
