It was the morning after Nightmare Night. Not a creature was stirring due to indigestion.
Every non-pony inhabiting the library had binged on candy the night before. Spike lay groaning in his basket bed, while we Eevees lay in a tangled heap by the bed. Twilight, even though she was putting off studying the ‘newest’ resident, had lain awake staring at the ceiling trying, and then discarding, different theories as to how two separate creatures could be the same entity. She had finally fallen asleep just before the rising of Celestia’s sun.
Abes had waited until the Eevees had fallen into their candy comas before carefully extracting himself. He had then spent the rest of the night creeping through the library, looking at any books that caught his interest, while also trying to reteach himself how to read. He had discovered that he could see perfectly fine with the minute glow coming from his gold rings, which had dimmed as he had come out from under the moonlight.
Now, he drew the curtains closed so the sun’s rays wouldn’t wake the room’s occupants. Wearily, he slunk to the far corner where the sun’s light had yet to reach. He curled up, wedging himself into the deepest part of the shade, before falling asleep himself.
I awoke with a start. For once, I was the second one up, being beaten only by Villhiem. He looked over at me with a paw raised to his muzzle, before pointing to the far corner. There, wedged into the space between the bedside table and the wall, lay Abes. His golden rings had faded into a dull yellow.
He also lay upside down with his tail covering his head.
“What time is it?” I whispered over to Villhiem.
“Just before noon.” Came his hushed reply.
We both shared a glance, nodding. “Operation: Hell’s Kitchen is a go!”
We finished setting the table about half an hour later. During that time, no one else had gotten up. That soon changed as the smell made its way up the stairs.
First came the Eevees, with their heightened sense of smell. Then came Spike, who stared wide eyed at what Villheim and I had done. Finally, Twilight managed to crawl her way down to the dining room, drawn by her nose’s promise of coffee. It took her tired brain a moment to figure out what she was seeing. “Wow, Spike. You didn’t have to do this for us…”
The table was set for two. Two towering stacks of pancakes where placed by pitchers of syrup, one stack obviously laced with some of the gems from Spike’s supplies. The Eevees had just finished eating from their own bowls, save for Villhiem and me, our bowls clearly showing the small amount of fish mixed in with the berries.
But what surprised her the most was that the dishes had already been cleaned and left to air dry.
Spike looked at Twilight in confusion. “But I didn’t- ow!”
I interrupted him by chomping on his tail as I passed by to my own bowl.
“I’m sorry, Spike, I missed that.” Twilight said as she began to work on her own pancake stack.
“I said ‘thanks’.” Spike said, shifting his confused look to Villhiem and me.
We just gave him our best ‘innocent little angels’ look.
“I figured you can use the energy to look over Abes this afternoon.”
Twilight stabbed her fork into the now syrupy mess on her plate. “Ugh, I was up all night trying to figure out what might have happened. Did Princess Luna do something she wasn’t aware of that caused him to change? Did he just spontaneously grow up? Did he leech some of Luna’s magic to do so?” She shoveled her pancakes down as fast as she could while still throwing theories around. “Was he always under an illusion and decided to let it drop? Did he just absorb energy from the moon and use that to change? If so, why haven’t the others changed? What triggered it?
“Just when I think I’ve figured these little enigmatic balls of stress out, they throw me something new…” She finished with a groan.
<<No, sorta, maybe, no, yes that! We don’t wanna yet, his friendship with Luna!>> I answered.
“Oh stuff it!” Twilight flicked her fork at me, causing a dollop of syrup to land on my muzzle. Villhiem, without thinking, quickly licked it off.
I just stared at him, feeling my face flush. I could see the moment he realized what he had just done. He slowly looked at me, mortified.
“Pfff, we need to get a camera for these things, Twilight!” Spike burst out laughing.
I spent the rest of the afternoon hiding under Twilight’s bed. The rest of the Eevees had left to do their own thing. I was deliberately avoiding the others. I had been keeping a secret from the rest of the pack, one I still hadn’t quite come to terms with myself. I knew I was incredibly lucky that our hosts had yet to not call me by name too much, and the few times they didn't, no one else had caught it.
“You know that they are going to find out eventually, right?”
Hello, Brain. Where the hell have you been?!
“Oh, you know, trying to come to terms with our new living arrangements. The plumbing is interesting to say the least…”
Before that thought could go any further, Twilight came into her room. I crawled towards the edge of the bed to see what she was up to. Her gaze traveled across the room before locking onto the sleeping Umbreon in the corner. Lighting up her horn, she approached the slumbering canine. Her satisfied smile, quickly shifted into a frown, then to a determined grimace. Slowly, Abes was lifted of the ground about an inch, before Twilight carefully levitated him out her bedroom door.
I slowly followed her down the stairs. She seemed to take her time, carefully planting each hoof before raising another. Soon enough, Abes was bumping into the closed basement door.
“Spike!” Twilight grunted out. “I need you to open the basement door!”
Spike poked his head out from an adjacent room, before running to Twilight’s aid, tossing his feather duster behind him. Spike walked backwards down the basement stairs in front of Abes, with Twilight following him. Again, I snuck down behind them.
Stopping at a landing, I watched them place Abes onto a table. Twilight let out a sigh as she slumped against the nearest wall. “That, was unexpected.” She panted out. Somehow, they had failed to wake the sleeping Umbreon throughout the transfer.
Spike looked from Abes to Twilight and back. “He couldn’t have been that heavy, could he?”
“That’s just it.” Twilight leveled a slightly scared stare at her assistant. “It wasn’t that he was heavy. My magic just couldn’t seem to get a grip on him. I haven’t had to apply that much effort and focus since magic kindergarten.”
“But,” Spike turned to stare at Abes, “I saw Princess Luna carrying him around as if he was nothing in her aura!”
“Maybe it’s just because she’s an Alicorn?” Twilight speculated. She shook her head with a sigh. “I’m going to need some fresh Eevee samples to compare his to. Is Yomega upstairs?”
“No, he left with the others.”
“Ugh! How are they getting out?!” Twilight sighed again. “You know what, that’s fine. Go find Leo, she’s usually sleeping in a hidey hole somewhere in the library around now.”
Spike snapped a salute. “Got it!” He spun on the spot and marched up the stairs. He stopped when he found me just sitting there. “And done!” he called back to Twilight, motioning for me to follow him. I obediently did so.
“Great!” Twilight chirped, levitating another large needle. “Hold Leo steady, please.”
So avoiding the word "Pokemon".
Huh, interesting...
7582009 thanks! To help you with the names:
The (current) Eevees are: Leo, Cy, Villhiem, Lulu, Yomega, Zann, Vince, and Conner.
Abes is the Umbreon.
Also, when I get a little farther in, I plan on writing up a couple of 'blooper reel' chapters that are cannon if the individual reader wishes. I already have a part planed for the Glaceon.
7582063 Shhhh! We call it the Scottish creatures...
7582122 wait are foxes Scottish I guess they're still canines but the eevees always looked more like foxes than dogs.
7582300 that was more of a Macbeth joke. To actors, to say its very name is bad luck unless you are actually performing. So it is referred to as The Scottish Play.
7582122 Btw...
I just noticed that the story's title has one letter wrong.
"Equistrian Eeveelution"
The "i" should be "e".
7582301 I love these chapters please try to keep adding more chapters to this story I love it
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Interesting... Wait do I have bad luck now
Since no one else had mentioned it yet, I guess I'll do it. So not only did Discord grab the group and mess around with their species, he also messed with some of their genders? Seems kind of random even for him?
And since this is my first comment here I just want to say that I'm being presently surprised by this fic. Not only is it loosely a HiE and Pokémon crossover, but also kind of a displaced as well. I honestly don't know why I decided to give it a chance, something in the description hit me just right I guess, but so far I'm glad I did. It doesn't take itself too seriously and the humor keeps getting small chuckles out of me. Love Twilight's continuous mini freak outs over the malleable nature of a Pokémon's DNA. And your update schedule isn't too shabby either. So please keep it up!
7582983 I would like to make something clear: this is not, nor do I have any current plans to make it, a Displaced story. While I do enjoy some of the more well done stories, I am starting to find to many 'clones' saturating the site.
As for my update schedule, I update when I have the time and my muse cooperation. Daily just seems to be the norm right now.
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Sorry if I touched a nerve, but I just meant it seemed to have some displaced elements. People taken from their lives, dropped into Equestria in new bodies, with new abilities, this all made me think of the displaced style. Now I have also come across some good versions of them, but others I've dropped fairly quickly; and to be completely honest I thought I'd be dropping this one as well, but I found out I was mistaken and am now looking forward to new chapters.
Twilight is going to freak after the next evolution spits out another variation she hasn't seen before.
Idea! Let's start a betting pool for Twilight's sanity! How long until she just throws in the towel harder than trying to figure out Pinkie Pie? I'm figuring at least two Ponidash transformations minimum this time. Any takers?
7583455 It's okay. At least I was able to avoid the Merchant cliche....
7583455 How many eevees were there? That number minus one 'ponidashes'.
7583472 lol
She?
Leo is a girl?!
It is kind of funny how she does not understand what caused him to evolve.
It is FRIENDSHIP
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how do you people keep having ponies in your comments?
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They are Emoticons of the site. The easiest way to insert them is to click on the smiley face in the text box ribbon which will open a drop box with the majority of your options. Or if you know the codes, you could also type them in manually. For example, the Emoticon uses ;twilightsmile;. You would just need to replace the semicolons ; with colons : and there you go.
I think you've made a mistake here with "deeps". It's possibly supposed to be "deepest".
I think you mean "one".
I think you mean "let it drop" here.
This... doesn't really make sense to me.
Hopefully the next chapter won't have so many problems.
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(S)he is answering the questions that Twilight just rapid-fired in order after she is fine asking them. Unfortunately Twilight can't understand our main character.
Props to anyone who can actually do this in real life. Although time spent with people who actually get overwrought enough to ask questions in that manner might be key.
Wait, Leo's a girl?
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She is now! It has to do with the gender ratio of Eevee in the games of seven male to each female. With nine characters we've got one remainder, which is now Leo.
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huh, I wasn't aware of a gender change.
Thank you for informing me.
Hah. Looks like I commented too soon. +5 cliche points.
And thus cometh the big surprise ... in retrospect I'm not quite sure how I managed to miss that on my first read through ...
Stylistic Suggestion: and cause
Missing Word Error: cause him to change
Soo ... Twilight is pure Psychic Type ... time to guess what types other Ponies are:
AJ - likely grass, ground, fighting, normal or some combination thereof
Flutters - likely fairy or psychic, flying is unlikely but possible
Rarity - I'd guess fairy, maybe fairy-psychic
Pinkie - likely psychic or fairy, maybe combined with rock
RD - likely flying-electric, maybe flying-water
We know Luna is Flying-Dark
I'd guess Celestia would be Fire-Flying or Psychic-Fire
Cadence is likely Fairy, maybe Fairy-Flying and Shining Armor likely either Psychic-Fighting or Psychic-Steel
Post ascention Twilight would likely be Psychic-Flying
That shall do for now.
Leo is a girl, eh?
I would of thought that magic would be closer to the fairy type rather than ghost which I see as what you have based it off of because her magic still affected the umbreon
Ah, pulling a Lonely Day, I see. Interesting.
Dark-type, girl; supposed to be immune to Psychic, which is what you are.
More needels and experiments Poor eves and Umbreon I wonder who gets what evolution Twilight going to explode all evolving different
Damn... I missed so many hints first time i read this chapter (actual use the auto read function). I was so jumped later on
less common spelling of leech.
leach: to dissolve out by the action of a percolating liquid
leech: to drain the substance of
licked
I don't know why Twilight doesn't just ask Fluttershy to ask them.
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I've been waiting since that first 'manly cursing' to see when everyone would start catching on.
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Wait, is Leo a girl? (Did I miss read that?)
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Leo was a guy and then got turned into a female Eevee because reasons. This was handled... less delicately than it could have been.
God I dislike twilight in this fic, the eevee bois are fine, i rather like this take on HiE