Chapter 19
Clones Of My Own
Wouldn't it be nice to have clones of yourself? You could have them take your place at school, work, situations where you wouldn't want to be in, and especially annoying chores, all while you just sat back and relaxed. The perfect life. That is something Flareon has always dreamed of having, his own personal clones to order around and do whatever he asked. Luckily for him, in the world of MLP pretty much anything was possible, even cloning. It all began one sunny afternoon in Ponyville. Flareon was in the park, resting on a tree branch. "This is the life! Nice and quiet! Alexei's still hiding in his cave, it's sunny out, warm temperature, I could lay here all day!" Unfortunately, that was all about to change real fast because at that moment, he saw Twilight approaching him.
"Flareon! There you are!" she said, "Don't tell me your going to slack off after making promises to everyone?"
"What are you talking about?" Flareon asked, "What promises?"
"Nice try, but Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Cheerilee, and Mayor Mare told me how you promised to help them," Twilight replied.
"I'm sorry, but I have no idea what you are talking about," he said. However, Flareon suddenly began to remember how he obliviously made promises to everyone without realizing it. "Oh no...wait a moment. Now I remember...everything." Flareon then hit himself in the face with his right hoof. How could he have been so stupid? Why did he promise everyone he would help them when he didn't want to? "Well...so much for my peaceful and relaxing day," Flareon said as he jumped off from the tree and landed near her. "By the way...what exactly were those so-called promises again?" Twilight let out a sigh as she shook her head.
"Oh Flareon...you really are something aren't you?" Twilight replied as she began to tell him what he had promised everyone. "Your going to help Applejack repaint her barn, help Rarity deliverer her dresses, help Pinkie Pie and Mr. and Mrs. Cake with their bake sale, help Cheerilee with her class at school, and help Mayor Mare with some remodeling on the Town Hall." Flareon's jaw quickly dropped in response. He had agreed to do all that? It seemed too impossible to be true, but it was. "Well then Flareon...you did make promises to everyone. I'm sure you won't let them down!" Twilight exclaimed as she smiled at him. Soon after, she left and Flareon was just seen standing there in total disbelief. There had to be a way out of this. At that moment, Flareon was struck with an idea. What if he helped everyone while not actually helping them? Immediately, Flareon flew into the air and headed back home as fast as possible. Luckily for him, no one was home. Flareon quickly got to work as he began to search the bookshelves. A couple of minutes later, he finally found the book he was looking for called 'Clones Of Your Own'. As Flareon opened the book, he quickly began to read the instructions for the cloning spell. "It's a voice activated spell," Flareon muttered, "Seems simple enough. Well...here goes nothing." Immediately, Flareon began to read the spell and once he was done, a bright light emitted from his body. After the light disappeared, Flareon couldn't believe his eyes as there were now five Flareons standing before him. Soon after, he began to pace in front of them like a drill sergeant to this soldiers. "Alright Flareons listen up! I have some jobs for you guys!" Flareon then pointed to each one. "You help Applejack repaint her barn, you help Rarity deliver her dresses, you help Pinkie Pie with her bake sale, you help Cheerilee at school, and you help Mayor Mare fix up the Town Square. Ok...everyone clear? Now go, hurry, before Twilight finds out." Soon after, the clones left Golden Oak Library and headed off to their assigned duties. Meanwhile, Flareon flew back to the park and laid on his favorite tree branch. "I should have done this a long time ago," Flareon said as he stretch out and relaxed, "My own personal clones to do whatever I want. What could possibly go wrong?" Flareon soon fell asleep, not knowing the chaos he had just unleashed on Ponyville. It took only a few minutes for the Flareon clones to go out of control. The first clone painted his face on the side of Applejack's barn with the badly written words 'Flareon waz herez.' The second clone did manage to deliver the packages containing the dresses, but had thrown them threw windows and directly at the customers who had ordered them. The third clone was hurling the sweets at everyone passing by like a kid in a food fight. The fourth clone had locked Cheerilee outside as he and the students staged an archery on the school. The fifth clone successfully remolded the Town Hall, and by remodeling, I mean he completely destroyed it. Unfortunately, it didn't stop there as the five Flareon clones still continued to cause chaos everywhere they went. Soon after, Twilight got her friends together at Golden Oak Library. Immediately, they tried to figure out why Flareon had gone absolutely crazy, but when they realized all this had happened at the same time, they were completely baffled. How could Flareon be at five places at the same time? Suddenly, Twilight figured it out as she walked towards a bookshelf and saw a book that was sticking out slightly.
As Twilight brought the book over to her and read the cover, she said, "I should've known...Flareon cloned himself."
"He cloned himself?!" Applejack exclaimed, "Well I'll be...I should have know Flareon was acting funny. Wait...then where is the real Flareon at?"
"I think I may know where he might be. Let's go!" Twilight replied as they quickly followed after her. Meanwhile, Flareon was still sleeping on the tree, but woke up when he suddenly heard the sound of approaching hooves. It was Twilight and his friends. They weren't happy.
"Oh hey Twilight! I flew back here a few minutes ago after I finished helping everyone. No problem at all!" Flareon said, but quickly saw everyone's angry faces. "Is there something wrong?" Immediately, Flareon was hit in the face by a book that came out of nowhere, and fell off the tree. After he landed down on the ground, he turned to his right and saw 'Clones Of Your Own' and quickly realized his cover was blown.
"Flareon," Twilight said angrily, "You'll have time to explain yourself later. Right now...we need to stop those clones, but we need your help ok?" Soon after, Flareon agreed to gather his out of control clones. Later on, Flareon had successfully managed to tie up the clones together and brought them to the park. He then began to lower them to the ground where Twilight and his friends were waiting with the book in the middle of them.
"Flareon...just drop them down on the book and then they will return you to your body," Twilight said. After Flareon dropped the clones onto the book, they disappeared, and a bright ball of light came out of the book and went into Flareon's body.
As Flareon landed back on the ground near everyone, he said, "Look...I'm sorry. This is all my fault. I should have paid attention when I made those promises. Also, I should have stuck to those promises instead of taking the easy way out."
"Apology accepted," Twilight replied, "Now all that's left is your punishment." Unfortunately for Flareon, he knew there was no way out of this one. A couple of hours later, Flareon was busy rebuilding the Town Hall. As Flareon wiped the sweat of his forehead, he turned his head and looked down at Twilight, who continued to keep an eye on him.
"Once your done Flareon, you have to repaint Applejack's barn, fix everyone's windows that were broken, go to a parent-teacher conference at school with Cheerilee to explain why school is important, and clean up the bake sale area. I take it that won't be a problem...will it?" Twilight asked as she smiled.
"No," Flareon replied as he let of a deep sigh and got back to work. In the end, there is an important lesson to be learned from all of this. One, do not agree to hastily make promises without knowing what those promises were. Second, if you accidentally agree to those promises, make sure you still find a way to still carry them out. Last but not least, do not try to use a spell from a book to clone yourself because there is a chance those clones will rebel and go absolutely crazy.