mylittlejamjar | 01 Butterflies [Visual]

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01 Butterflies [Visual]

[Today's scroll is brought to you by a small brown rabbit, who appears very curious as he looks into it.]

Huh...these things are way weirder than the D-Terminals... [The rabbit clears his throat and smiles.] Hey everyone! ...Pony? ...Pony. Right. Hey everypony! My name's Choco. I'm one of Fluttershy's Digimon!

What are you doing?

[The brown rabbit, Choco, glances behind him before scooting over a bit, revealing a green and red dragon giving him a rather exasperated look.]

That's Sprout. She's Fluttershy's other Digimon.

Seriously? Here too?

She's just grumpy that coming to this world apparently changed our forms too. [He turns to her, though still keeps an eye on the scroll.] At least you're a dragon. I don't think I can do much of anything as a rabbit.

[The dragon known as Sprout rolls her eyes, then reaches for him.] All right, that's enough, bunny boy...

But I'm not done....

[There's not much he can do, though, as the bigger dragon picks him up and carries him off. As she does that, Fluttershy herself appears on the scroll. This close up, one can see the dragonfly clip in her mane, and she looks at the scroll with a puzzled expression, as though she's not quite used to using it.]

I-I, um...I'm sorry...about them. Ch-Choco was just...a little excited about following me home...but, um...

I-Is...something going on in Ponyville? Th-There...There seems to be a lot more ponies than usual, and...i-it feels like...

[She hesitates for a moment, not quite sure how to describe it.]

Has...Has something happened lately?

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I-I'm sure you will, someday...when whatever is happening here is all over...

Naw, I probably won't go back there. More likely I'll go back to my own Equestria... orrrrr someplace else entirely, the way my history has gone.

Oh...well, wherever you go, I'm sure there will be a good reason for you to be there...

What -- you think? I'm not sure about that...

W-Well, I always like to think so...when I was sent to the Digital World, it was because I needed to be there...even if I didn't understand why...

And even here...there must be a reason we were all brought here...a-at least th-that's what I think...

Being sent to different worlds like this...there has to be a point...even if we don't understand what it is at first...right?

Hmm. The Darkness just grabbed people with strong hearts, and nopony knew what brought us to Clock Town, and nopony knew why Time Compression picked on some of us, but Stacy chose us as people from worlds that were supposed to be destroyed, who could help fight back. So it's really hard to say.

Mm...still...there must be some reason why we're taken to the places we are. Even if the world itself doesn't have a reason....there must be a point...

After all, look at you...and what you can do...All the things you learned in other worlds...it really helped here, when Twilight needed you. Right?

Yeah... you're right. I guess I learned or got something from everyplace I've been, although the whole 'elite super-soldier' thing has been a lot more useful than some of the other stuff...

[With a smile, she nodded.] Right. And it might be the same wherever you go...

Maybe, but I wonder. Kinda been out of sorts here for a long time. [Rainbow shrugs, trying to dismiss the problems she's felt for a while now before burdening 'Shy with them.] So you think what you picked up from where you were is gonna count big?

Out of sorts...? How so?

U-Um...well, I...I'm not really sure. I...I-I did learn to be a bit braver...while I was in the Digital World...b-but...we'll see how much that really helps...

[She ignores Fluttershy's question about herself quite conveniently, the better to not answer it.]

So what was it like? Aside from picking up some friends, of course.

[Don't think she didn't notice that, Rainbow Dash. This isn't over yet.]

Mm...well...there were some...difficulties...but it wasn't too bad...

Let me guess -- the biggest difficulty was that you were alone in a strange place, huh?

[She can't even by wry about it, though she tries. Having been to several places of her own, Rainbow can only imagine how hard it must have been for poor 'Shy.]

W-Well...no, actually. I...I-I wasn't really alone...Choco was with me...and you and Sprout came eventually...p-plus all the friends I made there made it...a lot easier to be there...

Th-There were...actually a lot worse things that happened there...than just being someplace strange...

At least I was there. Or a me anyway. Ugh, still a headache to think about...

But what happened? [Perfectly aware that the events are in the past and there's nothing she can do, Rainbow is nonetheless getting angry and protective on behalf of her friend.]

Oh, goodness.... [Where to begin?]

There...Th-There were just a lot of...problems...When we were taken there, apparently the...the barrier between worlds were...weakening...and it caused these things called Dark Fields to appear...and people who went into this Dark Fields were always...hurt...somehow....

[She glanced away.] I...didn't go in one myself, but...I had some friends who did...

And there were all these...these glitches...that caused things to go wrong. Like...one time, there was a glitch that somehow managed to project our memories over the D-Terminals...those are the devices we used to communicate with everyone...so everyone could see them. Some memories were...embarrassing, but others were...actually kind of painful...

And there were also...really powerful Digimon...some of who were fighting with each other...and we got caught up in their fights. Like, one Digimon had managed to block out the sun, turning the entire city dark...and another who felt we weren't worthy of being Chosen...and he and another Digimon were fighting, and it destroyed the entire city...

[She shuddered a little, closing her eyes as the bad memories started resurfacing.] It...I-It was hard sometimes...

[Rainbow nods solemnly. All this has a faintly familiar cast, the usual nonsense of other worlds.]

But you made friends there, right? And had good times?

[Let's get 'Shy smiling again.]

[Fluttershy nodded.] Mm...I made a lot of friends there...and it wasn't always bad.

I...I don't regret being sent there....and I do like having the chance to go back.

[Or she did, until she came here.]

Lots of humans, I bet. For some reason, everywhere I went, most people who were there or showed up there were humans. Never other ponies, except some of you girls -- oh, and Daring Do, once, that was awesome!

Oh, Daring Do...? That must have been exciting! Did you get to talk to her?

Yes, they were...mostly human. Some had powers back in their world, though...and there were other beings too, like turtles and cats and...oh, robots!

She was one of the Instructors there! So was Princess Luna for a while, it was awesome!

[Rainbow almost takes off to do a happy little circle in the air, but that makes for hard scroll communication, so... later.]

Yeah, that was kind of what everywhere I went was like. Lots of different people, totally different, but you know, they were all a lot like ponies on the inside.

Oh wow...! What did they teach you?

[Fluttershy nods.] Oh yes...Getting to meet so many different people, I did learn that we're all very similar, despite coming from different worlds...

It's really quite fascinating.

I kinda missed both their classes... Daring Do showed up after I took her class, and Princess Luna was teaching theater. Which was super-appropriate, but not my style.

So I gotta ask... [She folds her forelegs with a grin, well aware she's about to tease her friend a little.] Was it easier to talk to humans than ponies, for you?

Oh, I see...

[She smiled shyly.] A-Ah...well...s-sometimes...when I thought of humans as another type of creature, it...made it a little easier...