OOC Note: Yep, another one of these. The Brave Little Toaster and the character of Lampy are copyright to Disney, and the usual disclaimer applies to everything else. And Lord Fluffypants fans rejoice; he's back. ;) So, onto the fic itself and remember-feedback, good or bad, is extremely appreciated.

Zzz..

*Snort.*

Clunk.

"Mrph.."

Clunkityclunk.

Flip.

Flipflipflip.

Zzzz..

FlipflipWHUNK.

Nova jerked his head up at the sudden loud noise, shaking his head as his eyes focused. He stared for a several moments at the sight in front of him.

The desk lamp appeared to have eyes and a mouth. And it was reading the scrolls. Light shone from the lamp's bulb as it hopped around the desk to read the documents, making a clunkity-clunk noise wherever it went. The lamp looked up from its reading, clicking off the light as soon as it noticed Nova.

"Uh oh."

Nova did what any sane, only semi-awake pony would do. He panicked.

"TALKING LAMP!"

The talking lamp hopped off the desk, clunkity-clunking through the rest of the library. Stormbringer chose that exact moment to fly into the cavern, giving a greeting flap of her wings.

"Hey, Nova! Have you seen that lamp I gave you? I think I might need to cannibalize it for spare parts.."

Nova quickly glanced around the library before looking back to the pegasus.

"..No. Maybe Spitfire has it?"

The pegasus nodded, then darted out of the cavern, calling back to the unipeg.

"I'll go check! Thanks!"

Ears flicking back, Nova looked around the library once more, spotting a golden object attempting to hide behind a stack of scrolls. Slowly, the unipeg walked up to the shelf, to be greeted by the sight of the lamp..sniffling. He stared for several moments before the lamp finally noticed him.

"SHE'S GONNA KILL ME!"

Nova stared again, trying to figure out how to calm down the distressed appliance. The lamp quickly swiveled its-his, Nova noted, as the lamp sounded male-head around, apparently on a hunt for the pegasus.

"She's not coming back, is she?"

Joining in the hunt, Nova looked around, having finally getting over the fact that he was having a conversation with a desk lamp.

"It depends on how fast she can track down Spits. So, uh..lamp, do you have a name?"

The lamp nodded, hopping out from behind the stack of scrolls.

"I'm Lampy!"

Meanwhile in the forests surrounding Icestorm Point, an appliance of a different type was being worked on. Cloak swirling around his feet, the warlord paced back and forth, his mere gaze sending his minions immediately back to work. He could feel the change in the winds-change turning towards his favor. The warlord knew he could win-he craved victory. On second thought, he also had the oddest craving for an acorn or two. Shrugging the feeling off, Lord Fluffypants clacked his mandible as he watched the chipmunks work.

"Faster! Soon, we will have the advantage! No fortress in the world could withstand /THIS/ metallic monstrosity! With the help of this, we shall truly have FIREY CHIPMUNK DEATH!"

Pausing in their work, the chipmunks turned around for a moment, staring at the chipmunk warlord in confusion. The only thing they really wanted to have was some nuts and tree to sleep in. There was silence for several moments before Lord Fluffypants snapped yet again.

"Get back to WORK!"

With frantic squeaks, the chipmunks returned to work and Lord Fluffypants watched with his constant skeletal grin. He was certain that since the ponies lacked television of any kind-much less anything that played old Japanese movies-and therefore would be totally unprepared. Oh, yes. The ponies would pay.

"Hm..hey! I know! We could make a catapult and then we could-"

"I don't think would work."

"Oh..what if you tied some rope around me, and lowered me-"

"I don't think that would work, either."

Lampy nodded, tapping his plug against his chin as he continued to think.

"I know! What if we-"

Nova raised an eyebrow, tilting one ear back slightly.

"How about you just hop on and I'll fly you down to the lower caverns?"

The lamp nodded again cheerfully, hopping onto Nova and looping his cord around the unipeg's neck to hold on. Spreading his wings, Nova snorted.

"It would help if I wasn't-*gack*-being choked."

Lampy looked apologetic, then cheerful again.

"Sorry. This should be fun! I've never flown on horseback before!"

Not bothering to correct Lampy, Nova just rolled his eyes and took a running leap into the air. The lamp clearly enjoyed the flight; at least when it first started.

"YAHOO!"

After being in the air for a several moments-and happening to look down-his tone changed.

"I'm gonna die.."

Lord Fluffypants proudly puffed his chest out as he stared at the finished creation.

"Yes…it's PERFECT! MINIONS! Get ready! It is now time.."

With much squeaking and skittering, several hundred chipmunks climbed into the mechanical beast, flipping switches and making the machine's joints slowly start to creak as it moved for the first time. The chipmunk warlord's chest puffed out even further as he saw his creation rise up, blocking out the moon. There was soft whirring noise inside the creation, which slowly grew in volume as the machine came online.

Mechaponyzilla's red optics gleamed in the darkness.

Nova raised an eyebrow again as he glanced at the lamp still clinging onto him.

"You alright?"

Lampy unsteadily hopped off, shaking his head.

"Why do you fly like that? What were you thinking? You could've broken my bulb!"

The unipeg sighed, gesturing towards a cavern.

"You'll be fine. Follow me; I think most of my friends are in here. They usually are around this time."

Clunkity-clunking after Nova, Lampy nodded and followed behind the unipeg, occasionally stopping to watch for Stormbringer. Nova trotted into the cavern, where Riptide, Horus, Vesper, and Spitfire were gathered. Stormbringer was fortunately nowhere to be found. Spitfire gave a greeting flap of her wings.

"Hi, Nova! If you're looking for Wraith, he's still in a meeting with those other ambassadors..and Stormbringer was looking for some lamp."

The unipeg nodded back, taking on the most deadpan expression possible-not a hard feat for him. He looked out of the corner of his eye for a moment to make sure Lampy hadn't hopped off before looking back to the group.

"On the note of a lamp and everything /else/ bizarre that's been happening lately, I just decided to warn you that one of the lamps apparently isn't an inanimate object anymore, for reasons I don't know. I'd suggest asking Stormbringer about it."

Nova gestured with his horn to the desk lamp hiding behind his foreleg. Lampy quickly swung his head around, waving his plug in a nervous hello gesture.

"Uh..I'm Lampy. That green pony isn't around, is she?"

There was a short pause as everyone had their own reactions to appearance of talking, animate lamp. Spitfire flapped her wings in a greeting once more and grabbed her sketch pad, apparently delighted to have a new interesting subject to draw. Vesper raised an eyebrow, but gave a greeting flap of her own. Horus politely nodded, then went back to reading, mumbling something about possessed artifacts. Riptide made another nod, then shook her head in response to the question.

"Stormy's still out looking for a lamp to use as spare parts. But I don't think she'd want to use a sentient la-"

BOOM.

The entire cavern shook, sprinkling ice and rock debris onto the ponies and desk lamp.

BOOM.

There was another shake; more violent than the first and the sound of the impact was far louder.

BOOM.

Horus looked around, frowning at the third impact.

"I would suggest that we move to somewhere less likely to cave in.."

The group nodded, galloping, flying, or clunkity-clunking out of the cavern. The impacts continued to increase in both volume and frequency, and the group was greeted with a familiar sight-the residents of Icestorm Point either try to take cover from or dart in and out between the falling chunks of ice and stone. Stormbringer suddenly flew in, out of breath-but appearing quite cheerful.

"You guys gotta see this! It's amazing! It's gorgeous! It's-hey, there's that lamp I was looking for.."

Lampy whimpered and ducked behind Spitfire. Nova sighed, shaking his head.

"I think we should be focusing on what's causing the caverns to collapse again.."

The pegasus nodded, hurriedly flapping outside.

"Follow me!"

With more galloping and clunkity-clunking, the group did so. And were treated to an awesome sight. Mechaponyzilla towered high above the forests, making huge sprays of snow with each step. The robot creaked as its head swung around to face the small group. It's crudely designed-and tooth filled-jaws snapped together as it lumbered towards them. Survival instincts kicking in, the group scattered. Riptide looked to Horus as they took to the air.

"So, did you ever deal with anything like /this/ back home?"

Horus shook his head with a sigh.

"No, although I am still deciding whether or not that was unfortunate."

Stormbringer hovered above the robot for several moments before going higher into the sky and calling to the rest of the group.

"I don't think we have much to worry about-this thing's really badly made! Everything's barely connected, the hinges are weak, and for Rainbow's sake, who uses an /outlet/ on a robot? One more thing gets plugged in, and it's going to be disastrous.."

Spitfire followed Stormbringer into the air, hovering beside her.

"But I think that thing might destroy all the caverns before we can get something electric.."

Her voice faded off as all the ponies looked down at the final member of the group, who had apparently gotten himself stuck in the snow, and was too busy concentrating on not getting crushed that he hadn't heard anything the ponies were saying. But Lampy seemed to have the same idea.

BOOM.

One of Mechaponyzilla's huge feet slammed down dangerously close to the desk lamp. Fortunately, it happened to be the leg with the outlet on it. Lampy managed to free his cord, wincing in advance as he plugged himself in.

BZZZZZZZZT!

Stormbringer was correct in her comment that if one more electricity using object was plugged in, the results would be bad. The overload coursed through Mechaponyzilla, causing an extremely impressive show of electricity, causing it to finally break down, toppling over with an even more impressive shower of snow. With a flurry of feathers, the ponies swooped down as the robot collapsed, easily finding Lampy, still plugged into Mechaponyzilla.

Several hours later..

COUGHcoughcoughHACK

Wheeze..

Lampy coughed up another shower of sparks, then flopped back down. The lamp was scorched in several places, and his lightbulb had exploded during the surge. But other than that, he was alive as a sentient appliance could be. Riptide sighed as she headed for the cavern exit.

"For Rainbow's sake, just rest. You nearly killed yourself making that thing overload, and Stormbringer has all the spare parts she could possibly want from it."

With that, the unipeg trotted out and Lampy grinned to himself. There was something rewarding about cheating death twice in one day.

Elsewhere, not everyone was celebrating. Lord Fluffypants grumbled to himself as sat in a hollowed out tree knot, kicking at an acorn in frustration.

"Next time I'll show them! Next time! Then there shall truly be FIREY CHIPMUNK DEATH!"

His voice echoed through the forest and across the tundra, faintly ringing as Stormbringer continued to salvage the destroyed robot. The pegasus paused for a moment as she thought she heard something, but with a shrug, returned to her work.