Ponyville Task Force HQ Under Construction [Open]

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Ahh the weekend. A time for the adults to kickback and relax. A time for young foals to get out and play. The sun was shining. The weather was warming up. And Ponyville was peaceful. Everything was set for a perfect day of fun and relaxation. Uh huh. And what Character are you reading this post from? Exactly. Off near the tree line of the Everfree forest, near an path that leads into the Brambles of Chaos, the Nerdasus, Mr. No Brakes, The Winged Blunder, CloudyJack Duderotomy Skies, was busy unloading building materials he had managed to gather from a few construction sites near by. All the wood and bricks were refuse that he had talked the foremen into allowing to be recycled for Ponyville's Defense. None of the pieces were any longer than four feet. Even the stones were small and broken. But into their respective piles they went. Lumber pieces in piles based on how many hooves long they were. The stones in different piles based on roundness and number of flat surfaces. He had also gathered up a collection of used, but not bent, nails. A couple hammers and some rope lay next to the piles along side a thermos of fruit punch and a few plastic cups. Once he had finished unloading, CJ found a nice firm spot of land andused the claw of the hammer to dig up a hole that was just deep enough so his knee would be level with the surface. Satisfied with the small hole, he went back to the cart, pulled out a long bag and walked back over. First from the bag was a wood staff the length of the bag with a sharp skie at one end and a screw end on the other. The then pulled the bag down a bit to reveal another staff end with a connecting spot for the screw end. Twisting it until it was tight, he flipped the bag over and held onto the post which was now double length. Flying up, he gave a mighty thrust, shoving the spike end into the hole and thus into the ground. HE then refilled the dirt and stomped it down until it was compacted. He gave it a flank bump to see that it would stay in place and it didn't budge. Perfect. Now for the unveiling. Flying up, he removed the canvas bag and the Equestrian flag billowed out into the breeze. "Good, now to begin construction of the fort."

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Today, Katydid was bug hunting...not that that made it special compared to any other day. With her never having to go to school, the only difference the nymph noticed between the weekend and the rest of the week was that most of the colts and fillies weren't around during the day on weekdays. She'd heard of the fabled school from her adoptive sister and from idle chat of many of the foals she came across, but the most she could gather about school was that foals went there to learn and play together. Did she envy them? Yes, and no. Yes in the fact that she wanted to hang out where all the other foals did, and no because being crammed in a schoolhouse all day sounds like it would get tiresome, and she was afraid of what would happen if anypony found out what she really was in the middle of it. Currently the young nymph was running around in her favorite form with a ratty old saddlebag she found filled with empty jam jars she salvaged from trash cans with holes poked into the lids. She didn't have anything to be able to keep any bugs in the long term, so the plan was to catch them, gaze at them in wonder and accomplishment, then let them go at the end of the day. It was during her search that she found some old lumber piles. Perfect! Katydid thought to herself, Wood boring beetles and spiders love to hang out in old lumber piles! She was so excited about searching the lumber for bugs that she didn't even notice the blue pegasus planting a flag a couple feet away. When he finally finished in his task and spoke to himself, the messy maned filly stared up from the other side of the lumber pile at him. She was only somewhat surprised and a little dirty, but to a colt unfamiliar with her or her living arrangements, she probably looked more like a wild eyed Tarzan filly. "Huh? When did you get here?" Katydid asked, briefly taking a quick glance at her own hoof, then sighing in relief as she confirmed that she had remembered to put her disguise on earlier.

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Hearing another voice behind him caused him to do a sudden shoot up into the skies and snap around at the apogee, wings moving to keep him aloft. When he looked back down to the pile, he was sort of relieved to see it wasn't Keans with some prank. It was some orange filly with a messy mane. And she was near the lumber piles. She seemed a little dirty, perhaps she was used to the messy games like building. Gliding back down, he landed as gracefully as an albatross (you know flat on his face) and then walked over. "Oh I've been here for about fifteen minutes now. This is the Future site of the Ponyville Task Force for Defending the Village from Evil Intruders and Invading Armies Headquarters, or the P.T.F.D.V.E.I.I.A.H.Q. for short. Did you come to help build and be a member?" The young Colt's face lit up. He had not even began the recruitment phase yet and already he had a new member. Was this what being in the C.M.C. Felt like? This was awesome, but like Mister Stratus, he had to keep it together. The flag billowed behind them showing a bit of pride. However, the angle of it facing the Everfree Forest seemed to be like a warming for those coming out from there. The piles of lumber did have a few insects scurrying around. A couple small spiders. A Wolf Spider was crawling on top of the pile of stones and let out a very small howl.

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The azure-swirled butter colt was gallopping along in the weekend, having grown tired of cooping himself up and reading. He wanted to learn how to play...he didn't know what, but he just wanted to do stuff! Learning magic from Zyrkon and practicing it, the colt managed to master changing his mane, to the point where it did not make him tired to make a 'round trip', so to speak.

He wandered near the the Everfree in his aimless gallop, and he stopped upon noticing a pile of building materials, a blue pegasus with glasses, and a Wild-eyed tarzan filly. He only then looked up at the flag, the moment the CLoudyJack introduced the name, and the acronym....which was a huge mouthful as it was.

"Why not just call it the P.T.F?" he asked with a friendly chuckle, making his precense known. It was adorable, the idea of a ponyville taskforce, but calling it the P.T.F.D.V.E.I.I.A.H.Q was rather impractical....reminded him of a comic.

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"Oh...heheh, I didn't see ya there." Katydid decided she was going to try to play it cool and pretend she had just stumbled upon the 'construction site'. Nope, she totally wasn't hunting bugs. Normal fillies who aren't actually changelings don't do gross things like collect bugs, right? "Um...sure! Why not? I like building things... With my horn. As in, using the magic of my horn. Wouldn't want to get my hooves dirty~" Katydid added with an embarrassed giggle. As another unicorn (with weirdly cool swirly tattoo things!) showed up, Katydid spotted the wolf spider out of the corner of her eye. Hoping the two colts were preoccupied talking to each other, Katydid stealthily pulled a jar out of her saddlebag, opened the lid, then slowly hovered the jar upside down over the wolf spider. It began to skitter around though, and she was having trouble keeping the jar directly overhead, fearful that if she aimed wrong she might crush the poor spider's legs with the rim of the jar. Just as the spider stood still again, Katydid quickly lowered the jar over it, trapping it. "Aha!" She was excited for a second or two...which was quickly replaced by nervousness as she realized she had pretty much blew her cover on the whole bug collecting thing. She smiled at the two colts sheepishly as she turned the jar right side up and put a lid on it. "This...isn't what it looks like."

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He supposed it made sense. He was twenty feet away planting a big flag facing the Everfree. Most foals his ahe didn't even look at it. So He could have been in a sort of blindspot. And having magic to Build was great. Meant that they could hold peices in place up high and he could hammer it in. As he was about to welcome her to the task force he was surprised yet again, though not as comically by another foal questioning the Acronym of the P.T.F.D.V.E.I.I.A.H.Q. He turned to Compass and sighed. "Because then we would just be a Ponyville Task Force. It doesn't explain our duties and goal to protect our village from the evil invading forces. And the Headquarters can't be called the P.T.F. because it will be the Headquarters for the P.T.F.D.V.E.I.I.A." After his last word he heard a jar clasp down. Looking around, he saw the dirty one with a spider in a jar, sealing it up. He just smiled and flew over. "Oh that's cool. We have an Entomologist in our team. That will make us 100 times better in our quest."

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Having his suggestion being shot down...by a rather odd explanation, Compass Rose felt a little silly..he didn't know how to really deal with Cloudyjack. He supposed it made sense, though he did figure a few easy solutions to such w dilemma. At least the headquarters bit made sense- then again, calling it the 'P.T.F H.Q' was much shorter than the PTFDV-something or other. He sighed and gave up, he'd still abbreviate it when asked.

"Ah well, I suppose that-" he was interrupted by the jar clasp. He glanced and saw Katydid had captured a spider. He was a tad curious, it was odd for a filly to enjoy arthropods and insects...but then again, he wasn't going to judge. "Great catch! That spider didn't even see you coming!" he congratulated her.

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Katydid glanced around at her company nervously, waiting for them to say something like "Ew who collects bugs" or "Spiders are freaky why would you want to catch one". She was ready to fire off an excuse that she needed it for a book report, but to her surprise no judgement came from either of them. Ok...she didn't really know what the pegasus was saying, but the unicorn even congratulated her! Maybe if she just played it cool they wouldn't make fun of her. "Uh, yeah! Entomolo...whatever, I can do that. I know all about bugs!" She knew more about bugs than either of them could know of course, being one herself. In any case, being the weird filly who knows a lot about bugs was better than being known as the dangerous filly who is a bug. She stared at her prize in the jar for a moment then put the jar carefully away in her saddlebag. Hopefully the spider didn't get too shaken up from the jar rattling around in there. Continuing to play along with the whole 'Ponyville Task Force' thing, Katydid asked, "So what do you need me for anyway? I don't think any bugs dangerous enough to really hurt ponies would leave the forest..." Somehow she felt like she already knew the answer. She just didn't want to think about it, since it meant she was part of the problem she was being hired to protect against...

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Cloudy gave a hug to Katydid after she put the spider away and asked her question. His face was Positively beaming. "Oh I am so glad you asked. I've actually been working on the answer to that all night." Zipping back over to his boombox, he pressed a button as music started up. He landed on his feet and waited for the first few beats to go through before...wait for it. A Musical Number! Landing to look at the two he slowly marched forward taking a step every other beat. "Can't you see the dangers that is through out that forest? The Everfree is just simply teaming with all sorts of monsters. Thats why we must gather and join to form the P-T-F-D-V-E-I-I-A Yay! D-V-E-I-I-A Yay! Dancing as he spells out the acronym for the team, he leapt each time he said yay, really feeling the heart of the song he spent so much time on. He flew over and draped his forelegs around the necks of both of them looking with them towards the forest. "We need to pool our talents to protect the village. We have our loved ones that we want to keep safe. From Harm! From Big Manticores and Tiny Parasprites. No Silly Poison joke and keep out Scary Cockatrice. Because the safety of the entire town starts right here In-Your-Hooves! He flew over to the flag and stood in front of it saluting "Gather up your courage, a board, or a pan. We may not be full grown ponies but we can still stand and fight. Against all that deep Darkness, everything that wants to harm us. Do not give in to your fear, worries or your strife.With Equestria behind us we all must stand together. CloudyJack, Katydid, and Compass. All together we are the P-T-F-D-V-E-I-I-A Yay! D-V-E-I-I-A Yay!"

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Compass began to think about just how an entomologist would benefit the PTF...he still refused to say it by the full acronym. However, he felt that Katydid had some form of apprehension, he couldn't quite put his hoof on it. "I believe it's equally important to know which ones are helpful. Every bug plays a role in the balance of nature."

"Oh Dear Luna...Is he really-?" his question would be cut short by the music number, and he sighed. Yep, he is. he lamented, finding no choice but to listen to the song. While the music was catchy, he found the lyrics to be a tad cheesy...And that apple-bucking acronym was driving him nuts! Mixing such a long string of letters did NOT do the song any favors. However, he did get caught off guard when Cloudy Jack decided to sing on the edge of his seat, including Katy's and his own name. What he was forgetting that he and Cloudy Jack were in the same class, thus there was a reasonable cause for his name being known.

"How..exactly did you know our names, let alone work them into the lyrics so swiftly?" he asked, looking to Katydid to hope for some clarification. "I don't recall us introducing ourselves, after all. Seems a tad fishy." he commented.