“Congratulations, you’re the 1000th customer of this Fluffmart location. This means you’ll be able to spin this wheel and get a free prize!”
Steven looked at the cashier with dead eyes. He had essentially lost his best friend in one day and now he was supposed feel happy for getting to spin a wheel and win a stupid fucking prize? These Hasbio bastards took his friend from him with their dumb incomplete programming. He tried so much and so long, but those fuckers just HAVE to put their “planned obsolence” into everything… planned obsolence…
“Uh, sir?”
He looked up. It wasn’t the cashiers fault, he shouldn’t let his anger out onto them.
“Yeah! uh… spin this wheel, yeah?” he said and let it spin.
“Congratulations sir, you’ve won a free ALICORN FLUFFY! You can choose one yourself from the pen right there”
He sighed.
“See, I’ve just lost a good pegasus fluffy, because he thought he could fly… I…”
“Oh don’t worry sir! Alicorns are much more intelligent than other fluffies and they all know that they can’t fly”
“Really? Now that I think about it I’ve read about it somewhere…”
Steven took some steps to the pen. He saw a little red babbeh with a dark blue mane playing with a ball, who looked up at him.
“Hewwo nice mistah!”
Steven asked if he could get it out of the pen. He held the little babbeh in his hands.
Tears started forming in the little babbehs eyes “A- am nice mistah gun’ be babbehs nyu daddeh?” The babbeh ran into his shirt with a big hug „Babbeh wub daddeh, wub daddeh su muchies. Neba hab su many heawt-happies befo’”
“Yeah, I think I’ll be your new daddeh. Your name will be uh… Marmalade!”
“Babbeh namesie am mawmawade? Hehe wub nyu namesie, daddeh gib bestest namesie fo’ widdow babbeh hehe!”
“Just one thing little guy, I want to ask you two things. You have wings, right? Do you think you can use them to fly?”
“Hehe siwwy daddeh, fwuffies nu can fwy, wingies am just pwetty!”
“Alright, that’s nice to hear… Um… and the second question, how do other non wingie-hornie fluffies act near you?”
The babbeh looked sad “Huhu odda fwuffies am meanies tu fwuffy an’ bwuddas an’ sissies huhu make scweamies at fwuffies an’ caww munstah huhu nu kno wa’ du wong huhu”
"Don’t worry Marmalade. Daddeh will protect you and nobody can hurt you or do anything to you. But I have to warn you. I have another fluffy in my vroom-vroom, who doesn’t like Alicorns and is really scared of them. If he calls you a monster, don’t listen to him, you are not a monster. He’s my previous fluffy and a bit of a dummy. See, he ruined his legs, because he jumped off a high place as he thought he could fly. Understand?
“Hehe fwuffy weawwy am dummeh! Fwuffies nu can fwy hehe otay fwuffy am bwave fo’ daddeh!”
Steven opened the car door and sat in. Zephyr would’ve jumped from joy if he had any legs.
“Daddeh am backsies YAY Daddeh bwing Sefiw bestest meddysu-SCREEE WOOK DADDEH DEWE AM CHIRP MUNSTAH HUU HUU CHIRP DEWE AM MUNSTAH IN VWOOM-VWOOM DADDEH CHIRP HUU HUU VWOOM-VWOOM AM SAFESIE WAI AM DEWE MUNSTAH CHIRP IN VWOOM-VWOOM NAO HUU HUU”
“SHUT UP, ZEPHYR. This is not a monster, just a foal with wings and a horn. Good Lord, it’s not that scary. I named him Marmalade”
“HUU HUU WA… HUU HUU CHIRP WAI DADDEH BWING MUNSTAH HEWE HUU WAI DADDEH GIB MUNSTAH NAMESIE HUU HUU WHEWE MEDDYSUN HUU HUU CHIRP SEFIW UNNASTAN NAO HUU HUU DADDEH BWING MUNSTAH TU SEFIW SU MUNSTAH GIB SEFIW MOWE CHIRP HUWTIES HUU HUU AM BA’ FWUFFY HUU HUU”
“God dammit Zephyr, Marmalade won’t hurt you and… I got your medicine right here, but I’ll have to give it to you at home” He started the car.
“huu huu am-AM DADDEH BWING MUNSTAH TU HOMESIE CHIRP HUU HUU WAI DADDEH CHIRP WA AM HABBENIN IT AM BIWFDEI WAI DADDEH BWING MUNSTAH HUU HUU”
“I SAID SHUT UP. IF YOU KEEP SCREAMING AND BEING A BAD FLUFFY, I WILL NOT GIVE YOU MEDICINE AND YOU’LL NEVER HAVE SKETTY AGAIN!”
“nuuu…”
Zephyr managed to mostly keep quiet thereafter. He stayed in the back seat with his eyes closed (desperate attempt to hide from the monster) and only let sobs out, with the regular soft “huu huus” and “wai daddehs”. Alicorn was doing relatively well. Daddeh sometimes gave him a comforting pat on the head.
The car parked and Steven stepped out with the tiny alicorn in his pocket and took the sobbing fluffy carrier out.
All three stepped into their new lives.
The next part will be final. Zephyr will get his medicine.