Dynamite with a Laser Beam

[Waffle]

((Sept 7th.  Open to myself and Fluttershy.  Takes place during the evening.  Listen to Queen - who me?  Guaranteed to blow your mind...anytime))


When Waffle is bored, he is rarely unable to find a way to entertain himself.  As bouts of boredom tended to occur a lot, Waffle found he needed to entertain himself very frequently.  It was sort of a drag not having the rest of the clan to pal around with - even if they weren't already appreciative of his company.  Half of the students seemed intimidated by him for some reason.  Hyenas weren't just mindless eating machines; well, not any more than other predatory mammals.  Or maybe they were put off by his special smell - well dang guys, you smell funny too.  Golly gee, Batman; there sure isn't a lot to do around here when you aren't slacking off in class, is there?  Maybe...if your name wasn't Waffle.

The male hyena happened to "find" a boombox.  Waffle liked free stuff when it was laying around; the best kind of discount is the five-fingered kind.  Although at present he didn't figure out how to work it.  Waffle succeeded in turning on the power, but had not yet discovered the "play" button.  Things were difficult when you lacked fingers.  Speaking of difficult, the wild animal was sick of having cloths on.  At this point, he learned how to dress with only a small amount of frustration.  Disrobing, however, seemed to be his specialty.  Pants; who needs 'em?  Waffle reached his head under him and began to pick the buttons with his teeth until they came undone.  Shaking himself, he managed to get his shirt almost totally off, with only one paw still stuck in the sleeve.  By then in his struggle with clothing, his pale blue tie had somehow moved all the way up his neck and was around his forehead like a bandanna.

"Woo!" Waffle whooped, twirling his shirt around on the end of his leg.

[Fluttershy]

"Oh... my. Do you need help with that?"

Two days had passed since Twilight's awful fight with Pinkie - a fight that Fluttershy had been too busy cowering under her bed to visit for herself - and it was only now that the yellow pegasus had once again managed to garner enough courage to step hoof outside of the water circle dorm, let alone make it all the way to the quad. She didn't have any classes today, to the best of her knowledge; still, Fluttershy had carefully dressed in her uniform all the same, with her shirt buttoned right to the collar and her navy tie nestled neatly up against her throat. Now that she was finally outside, the pegasus had spent the better part of the day nervously scouting out the rest of the school grounds - and diving for cover beneath whatever was convenient whenever she saw anypony or any human approaching.

Needless to say, what with the fights and everything, poor Fluttershy was nothing short of a bundle of nerves.

Now, however, evening had fallen. Feeling slightly bolder after she'd braved the cafeterria - albeit at its quietest time of the day - for a dandellion burger, the winged mare had noticed the solitary hyena in the middle of the quad. For all the animals she'd helped, she had never had the opportunity to encounter a hyena before, and to say that Fluttershy was fascinated wouldn't be far wrong. If there had been anyone else about, the mare would likely have kept her head down and scurried on past before anyone could see her; as it was, however...

When the animal had seemed to be struggling with his uniform, Fluttershy had decided she was needed and had slipped nearer, looking to offer her assistance; only to find that Waffle had already freed himself from it by the time she had spoken up. Still, she could still try and make a new animal friend, couldn't she?

"I've never seen a real hyena before," her voice was softer, even, than normal. His species, she knew, got a lot of bad press amongst ponies who wrote about the animal world, and though Fluttershy hoped for the chance to prove them wrong, she kept her tone extra-especially gentle so as not to startle the animal. "Do you talk, like the other animals here?"