mylittlejamjar | 3rd Time [visual] [with Fluttershy on the side]

Helloooo Ponyville! [The unicorn smiles brightly across the scroll feed. Today he's wearing a green bowtie with a leaf design printed on it. Somepony else seems to be there with him but they're currently cut off.]

For those of you who don't know who I am, I'm The Doctor. I, like many of you with these fancy little scrolls, come from an entirely different universe from the one we're in right now. During our recent encounter with robbery and political trouble a certain mysterious figure known as the Pale Pony made an appearance- or at least those under her control did. It seems PP wanted to buy the stolen weather gem from the thief.

But not everyone here knows what I'm talking about when I say Pale Pony, which is exactly why I'm making this friendly announcement. -Well there's one other reason I'll get to that in a moment. -But yes, please feel free to ask questions about the Pale Pony and I'll tell you what I know so far from my eleven months trapped here. And so I don't have to repeat too much, please listen to the answers I give others and what they're saying.

Thank you!

[Just off screen a yellow wing can be seen near his head and a soft voice says something to him. The Doctor slaps his forehead with one hoof.] Ah! Wait! Wait! Right! That last thought!

Those of you wandering through the forest of late might have noticed there are a great number of trees with burns, holes, missing branches, or worse. This recent outbreak of violence against trees has left several birds nests damaged beyond repair and several more squirrel homeless.

P-Please stop hurting the trees. The animals are scared. [Fluttershy adds, leaning in towards the camera with some very sad looking little birds in her hooves for example. One of them has a partly fried wing which has been bandaged up by the pegasus.]

Now I'm not going to name any names yet, since there might be multiple people responsible for the damage done to our local forest. Though I know a laser gun burn mark when I see it. Let's just say there's at least one individual who I really hope sees this.

I have a proposal! Since there seem to be so many armed warriors and soldiers brought here to Ponyville with foreign weapons and a need to damage something, let's build a "training center" with a firing range and other things for beating. If there has to be violence, let's keep it in a designated area. This way fighters can prepare for the next big fight, and others can stay out of harms way. [He guides Fluttershy's hooves of pitiful birds back near the screen to emphasize this final point.]

[ooc: If desired, your character can talk to Fluttershy [SN]. Otherwise The Doctor will do most of the talking here.]

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Last I heard, there was someone buildin' a dojo.

Don't know who's been shootin' the trees, but I haven't done anything worse to 'em than a buckin' or two.

[Granted, her bucks, when she gets mad, leave a tree broken in half, but she'd never fry a bird like that. She's also looking more than a little irritated, but unlike with Tails, it might be directed at one of them.]

[Fluttershy looks scared. The Doctor is unphased by Flare's anger.]

Well of course trees are going to be bucked sometimes. That's why they call it Apple-Bucking season is it not? There's a big difference between a regular buck and harming a tree in a way that it might not recover from.

I don't recall hearing anything about that dojo including a firing range. It's the shooting that has me most worried. Equestria isn't even supposed to have guns. And while some soldiers have great discipline, there are others who like to think of themselves as above going to learn at a dojo or simply too... rebellious.

Edited 2014-03-05 01:18 (UTC)

...Equestria isn't supposed t'have a lot of things, but it ends up with 'em anyway. You seen all those loonies running around with superhero suits? A firin' range ain't gonna fix all the problems.

Of course not, but it might do some service for the trees and the local wildlife. [He gives a sideways glance to the birds and Fluttershy, all of whom are giving something similar to puppy eyes.]
It can also keep guns away from the fillies.

I don't think those superhero people have really done much in the way of damage. It seems to me they call themselves heroes because their intentions are to do the exact opposite of damage. Don't the papers say crime reduced thanks to them?

[Flare twitches visibly, those puppy eyes making her distinctly look away from Fluttershy. At the same time, she seems to get mildly less prickly towards the Doctor, oddly enough - almost like the request to leave the trees alone was what was bothering her.]

The papers also say that Harvey Finevoice and his surrogate daughter are dating, and that your friend Andrew is a changeling. Yeah, it's a different paper, but if you can print lies in one rag, what's stoppin' you from bendin' the truth in another?

[Really, the truth is more that she's feeling more and more useless, personally.]

[The Doctor chuckles.]

Ol' Hoovesweek truly is run on wild imagination! I'm waiting for the issue where they accuse all the new ponies of being changelings!

Not a big fan of vigilantes, Miss Star?

...Having been one... no. No, I can't say I am, any more. If you don't get the full story, then you're just as likely t'break things worse than you are t'fix 'em.

[Before The Doctor can speak Fluttershy's surprise gets the best of her and she blurts out] You were a vigilante hero?

[Just as soon as she has spoken she covers her mouth, apologizing for interrupting.]

To a degree. Fought monsters, not other ponies. Kept things like cockatrices and timber wolves at bay.

...got a little too overzealous.

Oh my. It takes a lot of courage to stand up to all those creatures. But what went wrong?

[She asks in part out of naivety.]

[There's a low, drawn out sigh.]

You work with animals, right? Like she did... Tell me. When you've got a one pony wrecking crew attacking Timber Wolves, cockatrices, driving manticores out of their caves... where do you think all those things'll go if they're driven out of the Everfree?

[Fluttershy's brows raised in surprise as she caught on.]

Oh. Oh dear. Was... everypony okay in the end?

Everypony except the mare responsible for the mess. Posey was a hell of a mare, keeping all those animals from causing more damage than they did.

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