Ch.2 The Assignment Begins

The Mane Six, Shining Armor and Cadence were astound to see human children before their eyes. "Why... These children are... humans." Rarity said in awe.

"Their heads sure are big though." Rainbow Dash said with a raised eyebrow.

"And... They don't seem to have fingers or noses like humans." Twilight added.

"And their so... So..." Fluttershy was about to say with hesitation.

Then Pinkie Pie leaped in joy cheering "Soooo Cute!" Everyone hushed Pinkie fearing of waking them up. Pinkie covered her mouth in realization. "Sorry."

Twilight then approached Celestia and asked "Uh, Princess? When you said you needed to put us to the test on caring for the next generation, I thought that you would let us take care of foals, I wasn't expecting them to be human. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it's just... Well... Why humans?"

Celestia nodded her head as she explained "Because these children are very special. They were born the way little boys and girls are made."

"Made?" Pinkie asked. "Oh! Oh! You mean like in the Nursery Rhyme, boys are made of snips, snails, and doggy tails and girls are made of sugar, spice and everything nice?"

"Yes, but they each have one common extra ingredient of which gave them powers normal humans don't have."

"What do you mean?" Twilight asked confused.

"You'll see when you spend time with them. And I think it's about time to wake them up and introduce them to us." Celestia then used her spell to wake the Puffs and Ruffs up from their slumber.

They opened their eyes and groaned as they slowly got up on their knees or butts. Blossom rubbed her eyes and yawned. "Wow. That was some crazy dream."

Butch shook his head as to be more awake. "Uh... Guys, is it just me or does our room seem a lot bigger and more colorful than before?"

They then heard Celestia greeting them saying "Good morning and greetings, little ones of Earth. Have you all slept well?"

"Ugh... What... What's going on?" Buttercup said with her vision still blurry.

"Yeah, and... Where are we?" Brick asked rubbing his eyes.

"There is no need to worry. I assure you, you are not in any danger, you are safe. I am Princess Celestia, ruler of Canterlot. As royalty, let me be the first to welcome you to our world of Equestira."

"E... Equestira? What place is...?" Blossom was about to say something when they all had a clearer look at the beings before them.

Pinkie waved at them greeting "Hi."

Blossom's eyes widened in horror and scream in shock which made the ponies jump. Pinkie screamed back. Blossom screamed again and Pinkie followed.

Blossom screamed once more and Pinkie did as well, making an annoyed Applejack to cover her mouth. "Pinkie, cut it out!"

The others with Blossom were equally shocked to see talking ponies in front of them. "Y-y-you're...! Y-y-you're...! Talking ponies...!" Blossom said in shock and disbelief.

"Calm down." Twilight said. "We understand you're a little shocked to see ponies talking."

"Why shouldn't we be?!" Brick asked a bit traumatized. "Horses can't talk!"

Rainbow Dash made a mad face and said in confrontation. "Watch it, buster! We take offense to that!"

"Okay, fine! Whatever! Just what do you want from us?!" Brick demanded.

"There's no need for hostility, little ones, I assure you." Celestia said to the freaked out kids.

Buttercup sat up feeling offended of being called little and exclaimed "Don't call us little! We're the Powerpuff Girls!"

Butch got up and added "Yeah, and the Rowdyruff Boys!"

Celestia smiled at them and said "Yes, I know."

The Puffs and Ruffs looked surprised to hear that. "Y-you know?"

"Yes. I have been watching you children from your world and have seen the choices you've made and the consequences you've went through. And I have seen that you children are special in your own ways. So I've used my magic to summon you all from planet Earth to our world."

The kids looked at each other with mixed feelings of surprise, awe, and confusion. "Wow, wait a minute! You mean you've been observing us everywhere?" Butch asked nervously.

"Yes, but not everywhere. I know when you need your privacy." Celestia said honestly.

Butch blushed and made a nervous smile. "Oh! Eh, heh, heh... Okay, that's... Real assuring."

"I have transported you children here, because I needed some special young ones to prepare my faithful subjects to care for future generations."

"Really?" Bubbles asked in wonder. "You want your subjects to take care of us so that they would know what to do with kids of their own?"

"Yes, something similar to that."

Bunny then thought about the Professor, which made her gasp in worry. "Oh no! But if we're here, then that must mean daddy will wonder where we've gone! He'll be so worried!"

"There is no need to fret. I've also cast a spell to freeze time on Earth while you are here. And once you children return, so will the Earth's natural flow of time."

That made them feel more eased at the thought of it. "So in the mean time we will be here until you decided that the task is complete?" Blossom asked.

"Indeed. And now that we have everything explanatory taken care of, I think now is the time to assign each of you to a pony you will all be staying with. Blossom, I will leave you in the care of Pinkie Pie."

Pinkie made a salut as she said "You can count on me, Princess!"

"Brick, you will be assigned to Applejack."

Applejack tipped her hat and held it to her chest. "I will do my best, your highness."

"Butch, I will have you stay with Fluttershy."

Fluttershy made flattered and modest expression. "Oh! Uh. Thank you, your majesty."

"Buttercup, you will be staying with Shining Armor and Princess Cadence."

Shining held a hoof to his chest and bowed. "We won't fail you, your grace."

Cadence did the same as she said "You have our word."

"Boomer, you will be assigned to Twilight Sparkle."

Twilight bowed and assured "I won't let you down, Princess Celestia."

"Bubbles, you will be staying with Rarity."

Rarity bowed and said "It will be an honor, your highness."

"And lastly, Bunny, you will be assigned to Rainbow Dash."

Rainbow Dash stood in pride as she exclaimed "I will be more than happy to do this task!"

"Now then, I believe you should all get to know each other a little more before you leave to your homes. Good luck to you all." And with that said, the Princess left through double doors.

Pinkie was the first to meet her new friend by leaping to her in the room and said happily "Hi, Blossom! So your a special kid, huh? That's great! I love making friends with special people! And as you can tell from my cutie mark, I love throwing parties!"

Pinkie Pie took out her party canon and blasted out confetti, with some party favors. Blossom made a miserable expression and said "Oh great...! I've been paired up with a party animal...!"

"Oh, and you're going to love the place I work at! It's a bakery run by a family known as the Cakes! The Mr. and Mrs. Are really nice ponies and their twins are sooooo cute! I happen to be the babysitter, so I guess you can say that I'm going to be baby sitting you now! So how old are you?"

"Uh... Five?"

Pinkie grabbed Blossom's cheeks and pulled her face to her's saying "Really? You're five years old? That's great!" She then threw Blossom in the air in joy. "Five year olds love having fun at parties! You and me are going to be the best of friends!"

Pinkie hugged Blossom tight as the pink Puff thought to herself 'I don't think she and I will make good friends considering that I'd rather study. And that Purple unicorn over there seems pretty smart.'

Applejack approached Brick and greeted him. "Howdy there, Brick. It looks like you'll be stayin with me for a while."

Brick scratched his head awkwardly and said "Yeah... I guess so."

"You know, by the look of your cloths, I can tell that your a city boy."

"Yeah, so?" Brick asked with a shrug and a raised eyebrow.

Applejack scratched her head awkwardly and explained "So I figure that you might not like the place you will be stayin at, which is..."

Brick interrupted by saying "Let me guess, a farm?"

"Not just any farm. An apple farm!"

"So? A farm's a farm, right?" Brick said a bit rudely.

Applejack looked at Brick with a questioning face. "E-yup. You're a city boy alright."

Fluttershy politely approached Butch as she greeted "Hello, Butch. It is so nice to meet you. Uh... Th-That is o-of course if... you think it's nice that w-we've met. I'm n-not saying I'm forcing you to-to think it's n-nice, it's alright if you can p-picture it anyway you w-want."

Butch made a weird look at the stammering pegasus and then answered "Okay, if you say so. I think being with you stinks so far!"

Fluttershy gasped. "Oh no! Did I mess up? Did I make you hate me? Oh dear! Does that mean that Angle bunny doesn't like me either? Oh maybe I should have had him up for adoption to be with some other pony he will be happy with."

As Fluttershy went on and on, Butch face palmed himself and said "But since you remind me of my youngest sister, I guess I can't complain much."

Fluttershy looked at Butch and then sighed in relief. "Really? Oh thank heavens. I'm so glad that you're fine about staying with me, that is... if you like animals."

Butch crossed his arms and admitted "Well, I don't! What I like is skateboarding, paint graffiti on stuff, steal things, party hard, and pull pranks on people!"

Fluttershy covered her mouth in shock. "Oh my! Now I know why Princess Celestia paired you up with me. You need some major straightening up, little man!"

Butch rolled his eyes. "Whatever."

Shining Armor and Cadence walked to Buttercup as Shining Armor said "Hello, Buttercup. It's so good to meet you."

"We would be so glad to get to know you." Cadence added with a smile.

Buttercup looked at them awkwardly and said "Uh... Hi."

"I know you might not like us because you don't know us, but once you spend time with us, you won't think we're so bad." Cadence said assuringly.

Buttercup narrowed her eyes with a bored expression. "Yeah, right."

Shining Armor and Cadence looked at each other with awkward uncertainty, but Shining made a confident smile and said "And you're going to love where we live! It's a kingdom made entirely out of crystals and the citizens there are as shiny as crystals!"

"Sounds girly!" Buttercup said unamused. "I'm guessing that you expect me to put on a dress and be like a princess too, right?"

Shining Armor held a hoof to his chin as he thought aloud "This might be harder than I thought."

Twilight and Spike went up to Boomer to greet him. "Hello, Boomer. As the Princess said, I'm Twilight Sparkle, and this is my assistant, Spike."

Spike held a hand out for a shake. "Hey, how are ya?"

Boomer raised an eyebrow as he shook Spike's hand saying "Uh... Hi. So what do you guys do for fun?"

"Fun? Well, we would read books, do studies, experiments, file reports, make schedules..."

As Twilight went on with the list, Boomer yawned and said "Sounds boring."

"Tell me about it." Said Spike.

"Ahem! I heard that!" Twilight said, glaring at Spike. Spike gulped and chuckled sheepishly.

Rarity walked up to Bubbles with a proper and polite greeting. "Good afternoon, Bubbles darling. I am very pleased to have met you."

"It's really nice to meet you too!" Bubbles said cheerfully. "I'm just so excited that I am going to have a pony for a babysitter!"

Bubbles giggled as Rarity looked at Bubbles with a weird expression. She then smiled awkwardly and said "Well, I'm glad that you're very enthusiastic about it. In fact, I believe that you will like the fact that I can make dresses, hats, and..."

Bubbles interrupted by saying "You make fancy cloths too? Oh my gosh! That is amazing! I can't wait to see your home! I'm going to have so much fun with you!"

Bubbles then embraced Rarity rather tightly which was too much for her comfort. "Oh great. Another Sweetie Belle...!"

Rainbow Dash zipped over to Bunny, which surprised her a bit. "What's up kid? Look's like you and I are gonna hang out! Cool huh?"

Bunny made a shy smile as she said "Oh, yes. It's really nice to meet you."

"By nice I think you mean awesome!" Rainbow Dash corrected.

"Uh... Okay." Bunny made an awkward smile at this.

"You and me are gonna be awesome buddies!" Rainbow Dash said eagerly pulling Bunny in to her by the shoulder. "We'll go racing in the clouds, do arial stunts, sky diving, we'll even do some cloud leaping!"

Bunny felt nervous of the things Rainbow Dash said they could do for fun. "Oh! Uh... That... That sounds like... fun! I... I think."

Twilight then spoke up to everyone saying "Well, now that we've all gotten proper introductions settled, I think it's time that we return to our homes." She then hugged her brother. "Bye Shining. I hope you'll do fine."

"I hope you and your friends do great too." Shining Armor said hugging his sister back.

Buttercup then felt worried of what they were talking about. "Wow, wow, wow, wow! Wait a second! Are you meaning to tell me that you and Cadence live far away from where the others live?"

Shining Armor could tell that Buttercup was uncomfortable of the idea of being far from her siblings. So he went up to her and said in honesty "Well, yeah. You will have to be way from your brothers and sisters for awhile, so if I think you should say good bye to them."

Buttercup looked down with a mad pout with her arms crossed grumbling "That's not fair!"

Cadence then assured her with a smile "Don't worry Buttercup, it's not going to be such a long time. I'm sure when the time comes, it will be pretty soon."

Buttercup just made a puffing sound. "You make it sound really positive...!"

At the train station, where everyone was waiting for their trains to arrive, Buttercup was feeling real emotional to say good bye to her siblings. And they were feeling sad that they might not see her for a while. "So... I guess this is where we part ways, huh?" Buttercup said in a low sad tone.

Blossom looked down really sad in having to not being able to see Buttercup for a long time. "Yeah... I guess so."

"But, at least we can always write to each other, right?" Boomer said with a weak smile.

"Yeah! I guess that's okay." Then Bubbles hugged Buttercup dearly making tears running from her eyes.

"Oh Buttercup! I can't imagine life without you! Please don't leave us!" Bubbles begged.

Buttercup hugged back. "I'm sorry, Bubbles. But it's the way it has to be. I'm gonna miss you guys."

Bubbles broke the hug reluctantly allowing the others to hug Buttercup. Bunny hugged Buttercup with tears in her eyes. "We promise we will write."

Butch was next to give her a hug as he tried his best to fight back the tears. "We'll miss ya, sis."

"I'll miss you too, bro." Buttercup said.

Buttercup then hugged Blossom next. "Just don't forget that we love you so much."

Blossom then allowed Boomer to hug Buttercup as he cried. "I'll mis you so much, big sis."

"I'll miss you too, little brother." Buttercup then faced Brick, who was just as sad as the other in having to say good bye to her. Buttercup hugged him as she said "I think I'll miss you most of all."

Brick hugged her dearly as he said "It's gonna be hard to be away from you."

Once they said their good byes, the train to the Crystal Empire arrived and stopped to allow passengers off and having new ones come in, including Shining Armor, Cadence and Buttercup. "Well, it's time to go. Come on, ladies." Shining Armor said as they boarded the train. Once the train was set, the train started moving as Buttercup looked out the window at her siblings, who were waving to her. She waved back as the train moved. They waved until they couldn't see each other any more.

Bubbles let out a sigh. "I feel like we've just letted a piece of ourselves go on that train. It's just awful." Twilight and the others had sympathetic looks on their faces for the sad Puffs and Ruffs.

Twilight placed a hoof on Bubbles' shoulder and said "Believe me, I know what it's like to be away from your sibling. Shining Armor and I barely have the time for each other, and you know what? When ever we do have time, I would treasure every moment of it."

Bubbles sniffled and smiled as she said "Thanks, Twilight."

Soon the train to Ponyville arrived at the station and awaited for passengers to come aboard. "Well, here we go. Back to Ponyville, if you kids are ready."

The Puffs and Ruffs looked at each other nodding at one another before Blossom announced "Yeah, we're ready."

The Mane Six and the Puffs and Ruffs all boarded the train and started moving. Once they arrive to their destination, they will get busy on settling in.

Well, what do you think? I feel like I have been using some words too much in this story, like 'awkward.' Well, anyway, just tell me how you liked the chapter and I'll be sure to post your reviews! (R&R)