I shielded my eyes from the light coming off Lulu. Soon, the light died down, allowing us to see her new form. She had tripled in size. Her body had become more streamlined. Her fur had become a light blue, with a darker blue ridge running from the off white ruffle around her neck down to her fluked tail. The pale yellow crest lined with deep blue that sat upon her brow was matched by the fins sprouting from her ears. She sat regally with her eyes closed, as if she expected us to begin fawning over her.
"She's beautiful..." Rarity praised.
<<Darling,>> Lulu opened her pure black eyes, <<I'm fucking fabulous.>>
I could hear a slight grinding noise. I risked a glance at Twilight to see her clenched jaw sliding back and forth, errant strands of her main popping out. <<Yomega...>>
<<I see it.>> Yomega trotted up to the newest eevolution, catching everyone's attention. <<Joy, we may wish to relocate to the Library. I believe Twilight has a new group of tests she wishes to run.>>
"Twilight," Fluttershy looked over to the studious unicorn, "Do you have more tests to do?"
"Oh, yes." Twilight jerkily nodded her head. "Much tests, such discoveries. Starting with Lulu."
Rarity gasped. "I'm afraid you can't." She stated once she noticed our eyes on her.
"Don't ya mean won't?" Applejack tilted her head.
"No, I mean can't." Rarity pointed to the spot Lulu was previously occupying. "Lulu just ran off..."
"Where did she go?" Spike asked.
"She just, melted into a puddle, then flowed away..." Rarity drifted off, pointing her hoof at the river.
Just then, Rainbow arrived with a small container. "Hey, 'Shy. I got the stuff you asked for. I hope I made it in-" She looked around. "Where'd Lulu go?"
I glanced at Yomega, who gave me a slight nod. Using the distraction Rainbow had provided, I slipped away.
I had made my way down the river towards the pond. Once there, I began to walk about the shoreline, looking for any sign of our missing Vaporeon. That sign came when I noticed a group of reeds shivering near the shore, on the far side of the pond from Ponyville.
I came as close to the water as I dared before laying down. "Hey." I called out softly.
The reeds stopped shaking. Shortly after, the top of Lulu's head rose above the water. "H-hey. How'd you find me?"
"I may not look it, but I can be observant at times." I proudly nodded my head. "You may have thought I was sleeping, but I've seen you coming here. Often enough to guess that this was your 'I need to be alone' spot." I shrugged. "The shaking reeds didn't hurt either."
"Oh." She sank until her eyes were just above the water.
"You okay?" I only got bubbles in response. "You'll need to bring your mouth up."
She just shook her head.
I raised an eyebrow. "What's wrong? You can tell me."
She rose her tail out of the water, arcing it over her back to look at it.
"You're going to make me play charades, aren't you?" I grumbled. "Was it about your evolution?"
She nodded, her tail retreating back below the surface.
"What happened?" Noticing her worried look, I growled. "You can't mime this one out, I need you to talk to me."
"I don't wanna talk about it." She dipped her muzzle below the surface again.
I sighed. "Did it hurt?" Another nod. "I would expect so. Rarity pulled gem shards outta your ass."
She dipped a little further below the waves, a small amount of bubbles streaming from where her mouth was.
I cocked my head to the side. "You whimpered, didn't you?"
She nodded.
With a sigh, I stood. "Would you rather talk to Abes or Villhiem?" Once more, she nodded. "Well, come on then. Everyone's waiting for you at the library." I walked a short ways, before turning to look back at Lulu.
She glanced from side to side before gracefully swimming up onto shore. With her head held high, she strutted up to me. "You will tell no one about this." She murmured out the side of her mouth. "I will talk to the others in my own time."
It was my turn to nod. "As you wish."
As we made our way back through town, we could see ponies already repairing the damage done. I chanced a look down the street we first fought Spike in. I could see Roseluck staring in horror at a pile of dirt, flowers, and broken wood. "My flower box!" I heard her cry as she passed from view.
I winced. "I'm going to need to make that up to her."
"How?"
"I'm working on that..." We soon came up to one of our tunnels. "Let me go first, let them know you're coming."
I barely waited for her confirmation before crawling down the hole. I popped up in the basement behind Abes. I could see the full pack waiting by the wall near tunnel exits. All save Yomega, who was standing in what looked like a giant mixing bowl. There was a pair of rods hanging from either side of him. Twilight was fiddling with some of the switches, while Fluttershy nervously fidgeted near the stairs.
<<Psst.>> Abes flicked an ear at me. <<Found her. I wanted to let you know before we came in.>> He subtly nodded.
We're doing that a lot lately. I thought as I shuffled backwards to retrieve Lulu. I left the tunnel outside butt first. Giving myself a little shake, I turned to Lulu. "They know you're coming. Go on, I'll follow you down."
"Very well." Lulu huffed before melting into a puddle. She flowed down the hole, not disturbing the soil.
Looking down at my dirtied fur, I growled. Of course she wouldn't get any dirt on her. I grumbled as I crawled back down the tunnel. Heaven forbid she becomes muddy. This is going to take forever to wash out. I paused. "And now I sound like Rarity." I moaned.
I managed to crawl from the tunnel without either of the mares noticing me. The machine whirred to life, the rods moving in a slow circle around Yomega.
<<What'd we miss?>> Lulu hissed to Abes.
<<Twilight spent most of her time trying to get her new scanner to work, while Yomega volunteered to be scanned first.>> Abes smirked. <<After twenty minutes of troubleshooting, Fluttershy noticed that the scanner wasn't plugged in.>>
I snorted, causing Twilight to glance at us. She did a double take when she saw Lulu and I. "Hey, Fluttershy, did you see those two come in?" She pointed a hoof at us.
"N-no, I didn't."
"Dammit." Twilight swore. "How do they keep getting in here?"
<<Through the front door, like everyone else.>> Lulu snarked.
"They said they came in the front door." Fluttershy dutifully translated. Twilight, for her part, only moved to a circle with squiggles above it. She then proceeded to bang her head within the circle.
"That's. Not. Possible!" She snarled in time with the banging. "I. Warded. The. Doors!"
"Feeling better now?" Fluttershy asked once Twilight stopped.
With a dazed smile, Twilight moved to stairs. "This is going to take a bit, I'm going to get some tea. Would you like some, Fluttershy?"
"Yes, please." The timid mare looked back us. "I'll stay down here and keep an eye on them, if that's alright with you."
"Of course." Twilight stated, as she made her way up the stairs.
It took most of the evening, but Twilight managed to scan us all. She spent her time waiting by getting a new blood sample from Lulu and running that. With Fluttershy translating for us, we found out that Lulu was now classified as an Mutis Enigmus Eevee Aquas. As we canines knew, her DNA had an odd sequence that Twilight stated would let her become water. Apparently, there's a kind of wild cat that can do the same thing living in Zebafrica.
Once the scans developed, we could see our inner workings. Each scan gave out three models on the machine's screen. One was clearly a simple cross section of our bodies, bones, muscles and all; another was a mix between our nervous and blood systems.
According to Twilight, the third was a model that was supposed to map any 'ley veins', as she called them. In layman's terms, they were the pathways mana flows along. She expect us to have an intricate network given our abilities. Instead, there was only a blurred out area in our chest.
Each model on each scan was distorted in that area. There was no way Twilight could know what was there without cutting us open. Fluttershy shot that idea down quickly.
With Conner's and my permission, Twilight scanned our egg. Every model came back distorted. It was at that point that we decided to make ourselves scarce. We each scattered to our respective homes or, in the case of Abes and Yomega, hiding places. Villhiem dropped my eggs off at Fluttershy's before running off to where ever he sleeps.
We figured we'd give her a week. My nightmares were going to filled with needles and shadowy Twilights for a while.
hahhaha so funny twilights going to snap, wonder what will happen if it turns out discord is behind this would take make it better or worse for her mind hahahahahah
I gotta ask, is that Eevee crying?
Ok... So we need a chapter just stating who is what and who is living where. Maybe put it at the front as a prologue or at the end as an update-able appendix.
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Twilight: YOU were behind these things showing up??!
Discord: OF COURSE! Introduce something that you’d not have a known way to figure out, much less a starting point and BINGO! All the chaos I need....OOOP!
Twilight: I feel better now. *Skips away whistling*
All but one: Whimper
Pinkie being the one: AWWW! I just got through making more popcorn!
LOVED THE new chapter! Wonder how long it’ll be before she finds the tunnels though, I mean seriously, they’ve been using them or HOW LONG and she has STILL yet to find their POSSIBLE existence.
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Which Eevee?
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adenbadens has a Google docs here. It's not updated for the latest chapters yet, but it does have the list you're looking for.
Speaking of...
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Would you mind if I included a link to the google doc in the story's summery?
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I laughed harder at that than I had any reason to.
About the tunnels, I'm pretty sure it's a running gag now...
ok twilight is no professor oak and something needs to be done about this over the study obsession and well creepy frustration gonna one day scare a Pokemon badly enough that they won't react as a human-like mentality but as scared Pokemon with awesome powers not everyone is patient as are story tale friends with there knowledge of the show...
im wondering whos gonna be the glaceon at this point
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I really hope she gets her obsession out before the eggs hatch....
8513749 Well, considering the exasperation that is boiling just under the surface with her, It’s only a matter of time.
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Leo, of course. He chills out the most.
Why, I'd say he's the chillest one of all.
Sassy af
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i think he would be a flareon
so when is leo going to become a jolteon
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I don't have time today and won't this weekend either. It'll be updated hopefully by next Tuesday.
Also, I called this for Lulu a while back! Way before all the water hints! Around the Nightmare Night chapters, I think, because her vampire costume had the big collar like a Vaporeon's ruffle/fin.
So did evolving hurt, or was it that she had the gems in her butt? Oh! Or was it because the gems were in her butt when she got healed, so pulling them out was like reopening wounds?
3 chapters in two days? You spoil us.
Tell her we love her too! Specially with such an amazing update speed!
Zebrica is the name of where Zebras are from in Equestria. Such was established in fandom long ago.
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The main one, the one in the cover art. It looks like it's crying.
I wonder if Twilight is going to go full on rage mode at Discord if/when she finds out he’s responsible for them being there.
It's the Age of Aquarius!
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Nah, ommlette-ing it out! :3
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Huh. Never noticed that before. What look like tear streaks is actually the Leafeon's tail.
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Ah. My apologies.
*raises hand* -_-
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*slow clap* yes. That's half of it.
Personally, I thought Leo was gonna be Vaporeon up until she/he(will that be addressed again soon? Like to know whether Leo considers himself/herself to be male or female though im leaning towards female considering the reaction to the eggs) started to train with RD. Now im convinced she(thats what im sticking with i guess) will be Jolteon.
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Honestly, I've seen it written about four different ways, with what I've written being the most common. Could just be the stories I read.
I expected on swift attack to the face on spike
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Leo is, at this time, offically considering herself Female. While she did start this story out male, whatever force brought the Eevee Pack to Equestria swapped her gender for reasons unknown. (the what and why will be explained, eventually)
While the rest of the Pack may have trouble coming to terms with the swap, the Eggs are forcing them to adapt quickly.
Hope that clears things up for you.
Its so cool! I'm rereading this as I wait for the next chapter
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Here's a doc i've been making that's a bit of a guide, a bit of theory
One correction.
double "the"
Seems Evees also absorb its pony companion's personality.
Careful with that, Twilight. If you keep it up, you're not going to like the results.
(Pinkie Pie impression) Ooh! Ooh! I did! I did! Pick me
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I'm honestly sad it wasn't Leo that became a vaporeon....
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Nah, Leo is gonna be a jolteon
I honestly thought Leo would be the vaporeon.
Unrelated but several chapters ago you said Angel Bunny was fighting type and now I'm thinking of Angel Scorbunny.
ZEBAFRICA
That's the funniest name for Zebrica/Zebraca that I've seen in ages.
Hmmm, I see. Interesting.
Poor Twilight Sciences meet random non logic... Namely chaos Wonder if Twilight will end sane Great chapter
Re-read that chapter and wonder if Twilight need professionals help when everything is done and all evolved...
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Pretty sure the Author is fucking with us giving us wrong clues... I love it
Had a feeling it was going to be Lulu, but I was still somewhat expecting Leo because of his connection to the lake.
I'm starting to feel bad for Twilight.
It was sorta obvious - while you originally foreshadowed Leo, you gave her a Water Stone, and also foreshadowed something else for Leo more strongly.