- >you set about gathering old bowls and scraps of cloth
- >not hard to find in the dump, lots of old clothes and junk like that
- >and it's really not hard when you have 15 or so fluffies combing the dump with you
- >you gotta give it to them for idiots they make good scavengers
- >must be how they've lived so long as you've had 2 casualties so far
- >One fluffy fell down a hill of trash and onto a broken lightbulb
- >it lacerated his throat and he shit himself and bled out
- >the other was from a stray beagle snatching one of the older fluffies and running off
- >not fit for the army, need fluffies that can at least STALL a dog
- >Yarrick seems to be a clever one, must've been from surviving on the bottom of the pecking order
- >he found an old box of surplus fatigues
- >american pattern but hell, you're gonna cut 'em up anyway
- >You then issue your small army with "helmets" and "Sneaky Coats"
- >You pride yourself on explaining complex things simply
- >you told them that the coats would hide them from bad fluffies
- >you also told them it would tell them who the good fluffies were
- >bad fluffies don't wear scraps of cloth or bowls on their noggins
- >you smile to yourself
- >these fluffies are so easy to order around
- >the best part is they rarely complain
- >you then decide to do some "recon"
- >and by that you mean watching the two grass heap herds fight
- >one is at a significant disadvantage
- >fluffy battles are a numbers game
- >when half your soldiers are going to fall flat on their faces
- >You need overwhelming odds
- >still the battle isn't what you'd call pitched
- >in fact the only way you could describe it would be a deadlock of stupid
- >half the time fluffies can't even tell who their allies are
- >the other half they spend shitting themselves and crying
- >a few stand out though,, one or two that score multiple kills
- >hell one has even been using a rock as a weapon
- >you guess that she's the smarty
- >she's a unicorn after all
- >Seems most smarties are unicorns
- >they seem the most entitled that for sure
- >always demanding one thing or another
- >well not in your herd
- >lest Yarrick pays them a visit
- >He seems like smarty material
- >It must be because he's a Pegasus that he wasn't the original smarty
- >he's taken to his job though, most of the fluffies that ever treated him poorly are dead or mutilated
- >he operates just like Che
- >you've outfitted your troops
- >you've established a state of order
- >and a military government (for now)
- >now it's time for expansion
- >at this point your sure you can take on the two herds in the heap
- >the heap is what you've taken to calling the 3 10 foot height piles of compost
- >10 feet? fuck you've been in america too long
- >using inferior measuring system instead of glorious metric
- >no matter you have bigger fluff to fry
- >you chuckle at your own pun
- >now is time to rally the troops
- >both of the heap's factions are taking a nap after their row
- >they fought until they all passed out from the effort
- >did somebody say super soviet sneak attack
- >you and your army move out
- >fluffies don't have the coordination to march in rank
- >so you have them move in small groups instead
- >your plan is to surround and capture the sleeping fluffies
- >you don't want them dead when they can be useful soldiers
- >these ones have combat experience, that's valuable in it's own right
- >of course you have REAL combat experience so the actually planning and set up was easy
- >your surprise attack is forming up well
- >with yarrick and patch leading the other groups
- >you don't have to worry about a wayward fluffy mucking this up for you
- >you see a red hoof wave from the opposite mound
- >patch is good to go
- >so is yarrick apparently
- >you then give the order to attack
- >it
- >consists of you yelling "GET EM!"really loudly
- >that in itself scares most of the enemy into a stupor
- >which is what you planned for
- >your fluffies then pin any resisting fluffies to the ground with sheer weight of numbers
- >and a bit of total surprise helps too
- >fluffies are obviously not known for sneak attacks so it's super effective
- >you then speak quietly to Yarrick
- >"Big Smawty wanna kno who ovva smawty fwends awe"
- >you love the moniker they've given you
- >"big smarty" certainly has a ring to it
- >of course the fluffies immediately point out their respective leaders
- >sure enough one of them is the mare with the rock from earlier
- >your proposal is simple
- >honestly, it's got to be
- >you look at the two smarties in front of you
- >they both have a look of defiance and hate on their mugs
- "Big Smarty gives bad fluffies choice"
- >you say this with obvious glee tinging your voice
- "join big smarty's herd or get big owchies"
- >your fluffies (god bless the little bastards) shout out various other threats
- >the two smarties look at their herd
- >scratch that, they look at your BIGGER herd
- >the female looks down at her hooves and sobs slightly but seems to suck it up
- >good she'll breed some tough new recruits
- >the male however did just what you expected him to do
- >you gotta love the predictability of a preprogrammed genetic bio construct
- >he puffs his little cheeks out and says "Smawty herd no weave, Smawty gif oo big owchies an' take oo fwuffies too"
- >you pull out an icepick
- >packed it just in case you needed a piercing tool
- >works good fro punching holes in helmets for unicorn horns
- >but you've got something else planned than haberdashery
- >you snatch the male smarty up by his neck
- >he's a little blue unicorn
- >pretty young too
- >too bad you think as you grab his lower jaw and force it open
- >you ram the icepick through the soft cheek flesh and out of the other side
- >the blood trickles out of the ragged hols that were once cheeks
- >so do the tears as the pain signals slam into the smarty's brain
- >"WAAAAAAAAHH!" he yells but it comes out more lisped than your average fluffy
- >you laugh as you toss him back onto the ground
- >he tries to puff his cheeks up
- > all that does is make a low hissing noise as the air escapes the dumbfounded smarty's mouth
- >that and another cry of pain as moving his jaw is super painful now
- >"make an example of them", that's what your granddad used to say
- >you loved your granddad
- >the rest of the fluffy captives wasted no time changing allegiances
- >or dying, quite a few of them were
- >you hung them from the gate into the compost area
- >It was kinda like that time you wiped out that afghan town and hung all the children
- >people say it was unwise to hang them from the local mosque
- >they said it was even more unwise to drench the corpses in pigs blood
- >hooo boy was command pissed about that
- >but these fluffies cheered while the condemned strangled
- >even their former comrades, you'd have to watch for turncoats
- >these little things were not a loyal bunch
- >well except patch and yarrick
- >but that might be because you were the first creature to show them any kindness
- >none of the other fluffies payed them any mind until now
- >they were the most popular fluffies in the herd now
- >of course were you come from "popular" means something more along the lines of feared
- >still it seemed like every 10 or so minutes another mare would walk out of the cardboard box that yarrick resided in
- >most of them were walking funny
- >and patch was just content to sit on a pile of old scarves and stare maliciously at the other fluffies
- >you're pretty sure patch has some anger problems
- >of course who are you to talk mister shoot 10 afghan's over a stolen crate of rations
- >well at least he hasn't killed any fluffies from your herd yet
- >works out well enough you suppose
- >you spend the rest of the day constructing building out of duct tape and cardboard
- >with the occasional bit of wood or metal sheeting thrown in
- >by the end of the day not only has your herd doubled in size but they have the closest thing to a meeting hall, hospital and barrack houses you could muster
- >duct tape only goes so far, even in soviet hands
- >still it's better than anything the anarchist rabble surrounding your herd has
- >and besides you've got over 100 fluffies now, most of which have dug dens and the like in the newspaper
- >you helped them along of course
- >you lead by example and expect your officers and soldiers to do so as well
- >before you leave you make another rule
- "Big Smarty says, all the pregnant fluffies get extra nummies
- >not a single argument from the herd
- >at least they realize the importance of breeding
- >of course the fluffy birth rate worked to your advantage
- >and new strays everyday being abandoned here helps even more
- >it's an unlimited supply of fluffpower (you laugh at your play on words)
- >and the fact that your boss does not seem to care that you spend you work day playing with fluffies
- >he's just happy to get his scrap
- >at least you think that's why
- >his orange fluffy seems to know something but you know it's too dumb to tell
- >you'll have time to go through the quiet man(as you've taken to calling him)'s office once your plan is complete
- >you wonder if anyone's tried what you're doing before
- >You forget all about that question once you get home and get good and drunk
- >you fondly remember that huge Belorussian who taught you how to smoke dope with your gun cleaning kit