- A young red haired woman cradling a earth fluffy walked up a long
 - drive way. The fluffy squirmed under her grasp.
 - “Weg ouchie wan sis wan huggies no wike you!”
 - “Shh little one we are almost there.”
 - Reaching a gated bridge she fumbled the pony into one hand and hit the intercom.
 - “Hello is anyone there.”
 - The response was quick polite and firm
 - “Please leave my property.”
 - The young woman held the pony up to the intercom.
 - “I've got some thing that belongs to you i think. i found a Fluffy
 - Pony limping up the road.”
 - The earth fluffy spoke into the intercom
 - “Momie i haf booboo no can walk. I sowwy I get unda fence again.”
 - “ Christ Apple Bloom, I'll open the gate and meet you half way.”
 - A few minutes later she was met on the road by an older woman her hair
 - also red but peppered with gray.
 - “God damn this fluffy she keeps getting out! Did you bring your
 - friends this time bloom?”
 - The pony respond like a petulant child.
 - Day fwardy ponies so i go my sewf! Jackie say i foal an need stay
 - cwose. I big fwuffy I go adventure find fwuffy mark ... den bad doggie
 - scare me and i wun fast! I faww down get ouchie nice wady gif pony
 - back wide home.
 - “Bloom I'm going to take a look at your leg and then your going to
 - spend the rest of the day in the bad fluffy house.
 - The fluffy eyes filled with tears as she was handed over to her owner.
 - “Pwease no bad fwuffy house . . . ”
 - “Ihanks im..”
 - Doctor Faust I know you interned with my father after you got out of Princeton.
 - The doctor frowned.
 - “Let me guess on of the professors daughters is a cop, the others a
 - kindergarten teacher, that leaves the reporter right? Old people love
 - facebook tokid.”
 - “It's just no ones gotten the whole store about where fluffy ponies
 - came from and how they got out. You are the only one not still working
 - for the company .
 - “You lucky i had a crush on your old man. Walk with me kid I'll teach
 - you something about fluffies.
 - Ten minutes later they reached a field next to an old farm house. It
 - was full of old playground equipment and plastic play houses. Two
 - dozen fluffy ponies of every age type and size trotted about chasing
 - butterflies pulling toy carts full of foals and everywhere the sound
 - of childish babbling.
 - “Pwetty bug come here fwuffy wan see you.”
 - “Foals no eat dat onwy eat nummy gween gwasses.”
 - “Pinky fwuff no gif foals snackies they wan pway aww night and no
 - sweepie wif mama an papa fwuffies.”
 - A blond colored fluffie in a straw hat galloped over at full speed.
 - “Bwoom bad foal! wun away make jackie worry! what i teww gwanny if u
 - no come back?
 - The older fluffy moved to bop the younger one on the nose but the
 - Doctor cough her hoof.
 - “Apple jack leave your sister be. Go get me my ouchie kit and she ll
 - see spend the rest of the day in the bad fluffy house. “
 - The fluffy puffed her self up with rage stomped her tiny hoof and
 - trotted off returning with a first aid kit in her mouth. The Doctor
 - took a bandage roll out of the kit wrapped the fluffies leg and told
 - her sister to put the kit away.
 - “Apple bloom you want to be a big girl you get treated like one, go .”
 - She frowned and limped over to a fluffie sized prison and hopped
 - inside. She sat sulking as other fluffy ponies walk past and
 - snickered.
 - The doctor turned to her guest.
 - “This is what they were meant for, playing house. Every one of these
 - was abandoned, born feral or foal born here. They can all talk baby
 - English and know the same list of shapes and colors we programed into
 - their genome. That is unless the mother or foal was malnourished at
 - certain stages that's how you get fluffies too stupid not shit in each
 - others faces or try to mate with sharp objects.”
 - The reporter bent down to pet a passing gray Pegasus with a blonde
 - mane and a crossed eye before speaking.
 - “And fluffsplsion?”
 - “Their waste disposal organs are a bit too efficient and if the
 - mothers diet is just right and her or the foal is a unicorn able to
 - make sparks some time rarely, yes it can happen. They were never meant
 - to live on nachos and sprite. Hell the fourth gen fluffies where never
 - meant to be sold to the public unless they were sterilized. We planned
 - on a fifth gen fluffie that could have one foal maybe twice in a
 - lifetime. Zero or negative population growth, so people would have to
 - keep coming back to the company if they want more. What those Peta
 - nuts let loose were industrial breeding machines meant to meet an
 - expected huge demand for Christmas after launch of the product line.
 - Hell the dams cant fucking walk they get so huge!”
 - “So you actually though of this stuff when you made them? Most people
 - just call the escape near D.C. a jump-start on that would happen
 - anyway. I mean the bone structure on the Pegasus alone
 - The Doc cut in sounding annoyed.
 - “I told them making something that could glide was irresponsible but
 - they wanted to show the press and kids everywhere something amazing
 - they said!”
 - “A little purple fluffy with a roll of paper in her mouth waddled up
 - the humans and ran in circles mumbling until the Doctor took the
 - paper.
 - “Mama I haf wetta fo pwencess pwease call dwagon!”
 - The doctor smiles takes out a lighter walks outside of "town" and
 - burns the paper. A few fluffies gather around and marveling at the
 - flames.
 - “ooooomagic dwagon bweath”
 - The little purple pony ran in circles
 - I twell pwincess widdle fwuffy named bwoom went 'sloring an new fwen
 - bwing home wif bobo! Wession is no weave 'questria! Dis is one hoovie,
 - two hoovie, three hoovie, four hoovie, dis da fouth time bwoom wean
 - dis wession. I hope widdle fwuffy wearn dis time pwincess tink bad
 - fwuffies wive here!
 - She toddles off and the doctor smiles.
 - “Twilight there used to be in a traveling show, with a fake alicorn. A
 - puppet made from fluffies. she did the real “magic tricks” and though
 - the princess was her teacher. Best damn telekinetic I've seen the
 - prototypes weren’t as good as she is. The show shut down and they sent
 - her here telling her the princess sent her to learn about friendship.”
 - “Wow thats cute and sad.”
 - “Thats fluffies in a nutshell. I know I keep saying this, but they
 - were never meant to deal with cruelty we never gave them that. They
 - were designed to be in suburban living rooms having pretend tea
 - parties and exploring fenced in yards with there k-12 year old owners.
 - That and eating canned food bought from the company that made them of
 - course. Before you ask they crave a “you know what” because its cheap
 - and i lived on the stuff for years.”
 - The reporter laughed.
 - “If i say the words will there be a fluffy stamped?”
 - “No just a ton of crying and begging. now if they were underfeed
 - something every other animal has instinct for maybe.”
 - “No instincts?”
 - “The board of directors told us to make them as child proof as humanly
 - possible. They could only rarely scratch or bite and even then
 - shouldn't be able to really hurt anyone. The unicorns horns they made
 - an exception for because how good it look for the press. There brains
 - are modified from a rabbits with a speech center modded after a three
 - year old. My cousins kid . . . she's a teenager now. Fucking hates
 - fluffies goes through them faster than condoms. The little bitch I
 - swear smarty friends are a bit of her we left in.”
 - “I was going to ask about smarty friends.”
 - We programed them to defer to humans as default pack leaders. We never
 - imagined fluffies on their own with most or all humans seen as bad or
 - out to hurt them. Hell half the time they defer to humans even if they
 - know they WILL hurt them. Give that position to another fluffy pony
 - and they think they can do no wrong. No wonder fluffies with that
 - mindset turn into assholes they think that's part of the job. Still if
 - you knew my cousins kid id swear it was her in those fluff-balls.
 - “How do you feel about what happened after the escape. The way they've
 - worked there way into the ecosystem?”
 - A pair of passing Pegasus, one blue with a rainbow mane was picking on
 - a smaller orange one with a purple mane.
 - “You widdwe fwuffy, no weaddy fo fwying wingies to tiny scootawoo hehehe.”
 - The younger fluffies eyes teared up.
 - “i big fwuffy dashie wan fwy wike you. Pwease tell how fwy!”
 - The Doctor stepped in.
 - Rainbow Dash can't fly Scooaloo shes just a good glider. Dash if catch
 - you talking like that again its the bad fluffy house next to Apple
 - Bloom! Talk like that makes Pegasus get them selves killed trying to
 - fly!
 - Dash the blue fluffy stomped her little hoof and spoke loudly.
 - “I fwy an wive on cwoud and you jus jealous !”
 - “Dash if you keep this up i'll clip your wings and you wont be gliding
 - or flying anymore understand me?”
 - The ponies eye grew wide with fear.
 - “I ..... sowwy! ....pwaease no cwip wingies......wuv gwide down fwom
 - apple tree.!
 - It then galloped off with the orange one in tow.
 - “It ok dashie i beweave you fwy!”
 - The doctor turned back to the younger woman.
 - “They aren't fitting into the ecosystem kid. They are scavengers and
 - food for anything else that can stand to chew through the fluff. They
 - survive because of the speed of their reproduction that's all. Sure
 - they can be smart but they don't have the tools or the lifespan to
 - develop that at all. They get six years tops under optimum lab
 - perfect conditions. Four years under normal household conditions as a
 - pet and maybe two years in the wild if they are extremely lucky.
 - That's not enough time for them to learn, I know we planed it that
 - way. We didn't want them getting TO smart.”
 - The reporter looked sad as a pair of white unicorns trotted past
 - pulling a toy wagon full of doll clothing.
 - “We wook pwetty fo party tonight sis!”
 - “ They are toys kiddo that is all. We designed fluffy ponies on almost
 - ever level to be toys to PREVENT them hurting some bratty kid that
 - treated them like crap or to screw up the environment if they got out
 - in the wild. Like I already told you if not for the animal loving nuts
 - breaking out what amounted to a herd of biological toy factories they
 - wouldn’t even be an issue! I respect you father and all but if there
 - isn't anything else kid i've got a few pounds of pony chow to hand out
 - for dinner. I like to throw them a party every month or so, least I
 - can do really.”
 - “Just ... people are really mean to fluffy ponies i mean their your
 - creations and all how does that make you feel.”
 - “People play with toys however they want kiddo. It's really nothing we
 - didn't consider the scale is just larger. Now Blossum is it ? Please
 - tell Professor Utonuim I send my best, but its time for you to leave.
 - The reporter smiled before turning to leave.
 - “Goodbye doctor Faust.”