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oh y'all KNEW i was gonna give smoky and monty a kid at some point >:3

i'm gonna tl:dr, this a bit, but eventually, Smokescreen finally accepts Montezuma's offer and joins forces with his former nemesis. After befriending the purple cat bastard and coming to understand exactly what Equestria has stolen from him, Smoky can no longer bear to be his country's mindless attack dog. His agency absolutely panics at their prized asset falling into the fiendish clutches of Montezuma and promptly turn on Smokescreen. He is labelled a traitor, there's a massive cover-up, and the agency gets to work secretly trying to capture both Smoky and Monty.

The pair (alongside Monty's minions) spend a good while on the run, traveling all over Equestria, stealing back artifacts, and dealing out vigilante justice wherever needed....and also struggling to deal with their rapidly mounting romantic/sexual tension, right up til the minions get fed up and start concocting increasingly elaborate schemes to hook their idiot boss up with the overgrown gecko. Both hybrids are mortified. The minions might've performed impromptu serenades. They might've forged Monty and Smoky's signatures on presents meant for the other: 'subtle' gifts of flowers and custom lingerie (....how do they know Smoky's hip measurements, anyway??). But eventually, one of these terrible schemes works, and Montezuma and Smokescreen realize they kinda don't want to stop being a team, no matter what happens.

Fortunately for both hybrids, Smoky has a connection through his former boss Bon-Bon, who eventually (against the agency's orders) begins to chip away at the powers that be, eventually landing Montezuma and Smoky audience with Celestia....who pardons them both and throws her hat into Monte's artifact recovery efforts. Many years in the future, while Monty's still a controversial figure (especially by longtime Daring Do fans), he's no longer majority regarded as a terrorist- not after years of charity work and cultural preservation and thwarting would-be villains with Smoky.

1.-3) So. Meet Ellie. Also known as El, or Ella (pronounced Ey-ya), or just El Chupacabra to the locals. Sometime waaaaaay into the future, when Smokescreen has abandoned his agency to become Montezuma's partner, the pair are called to investigate a mystery. Terrified locals speak of a bloodthirsty vampire that stalks their livestock in the night (recall that goats are not sapient in MLP, and are thus utilized on farms), leaving their goats drained and sickly. Montezuma dismisses all this as a silly legend made up to scare children into behaving, but Smoky is less skeptical. After all, he's seen some pretty weird and frightening things in Equestria, including Montezuma in the morning without his eyeliner on. It's a scary world out there.

During the pair's stake-out of a local goat herd, they are attacked (read: Monty is attacked) by a teeny, furious ball of claws and teeth, oh god, so many teeth. El Chupacabra puts up a truly fearsome fight, but Smoky is eventually able to nab her by the tail and rip her off Montezuma. So this is the dreaded chupacabra. Huh. She's kinda......cute.

Ellie's backstory is entirely unknown, and she doesn't seem to remember where she came from. As a feral child of about four years old, Ellie is pretty past the developmental window for language acquisition, and does not seem capable of speech. However, she can understand plenty, and Smoky and Monty are having some success teaching her sign language. As she has no parents (and the locals want her nowhere near their town) Smokescreen and Montezuma begrudgingly take her in. It's meant to be a temporary arrangement until they can find a suitable foster family, with Monty in particular being VERY opposed to a literal bloodsucking demon child living with them, especially as she seems to favor Smoky and bite Monty just for shits and giggles.

Buuuut, much like mange, Ellie just has a certain way of growing on ya....

4.-7.) Dragons are a surprisingly social species. During the laying season, eggs are arranged carefully in communal nesting pits and dutifully tended by every dragon in the Dragon Lands (their efforts supervised by the Dragon Lord, naturally). As eggs need constant heat and monitoring to hatch, dragons tend to have a strong, strong nesting instinct. Hatchlings are raised communally, and any orphaned hatchlings are quickly adopted. This is what Garble was trying to do in the episode Dragon Quest- though he was going about it in a very rough, rude way, he was subconsciously trying to take young Spike under his wing and teach him to survive.

Smoky, being half dragon and half changeling (who are also extremely social, with some changelings being born for the sole purpose of nurturing the Queen's eggs and grubs) is not remotely immune to the instinct to nest. It doesn't matter that Ellie is not his biological offspring, or that she's unlike any child he's ever met- his lizard brain sees a babie, wants to protect babie, simple as that.

This is not the case for Montezuma. Though he quite likes kids (he's got all his minions' kids birthdays memorized and has attended many a baby shower), the idea of being totally responsible for one is terrifying to him. More than anything, Monty fears hurting someone the way he was hurt, and he has little faith in his ability to care properly for Ellie.

notes from a dear patron:

What if when Monty brings her to see Ahuizotl and his face just drops. Turns out that she is the granddaughter or daughter of a long lost friend of his or a friend that has been gone for a long time and Elle is either the last of her species or one of the few that are left. It would offer a mystery for Monty and Smoky to solve. Also I could see Monty getting really invested because it would hit so close to home for him seeing as she mirrors his experience.

Monty would be an absolute mess when it came to kids, or even the very thought of having one of his own. Monty wants the best for Elle and in this current moment I believe he loves her dearly, but he's absolutely petrified that he is going to become like his abusers. I believe that it'll take an "Aha" moment or Smoking signing "the cycle ends with you" for Monty to really become Elle's Dad. In which Monty would be a hot mess and Smoky would just be there comforting him. Now with my other comment I posted on another post of yours. Him realizing that there could be more of Elle's species out there and him wanting to desperately reunite her with a family she doesn't know.....But to young Ellie, Smoky and Monty are her parents. Through a long quest of Monty trying to find her species, he finds out it's become more for him than for Elle, like he needs to prove something to himself. It takes Smoky to make him see that, yes, one day Ellie will want to know about who she is, who her species were, her culture and all that, but right now all she cares about are her two daddies and her grandparents and gnawing on Monty's tail. That's all she wants and needs right now.

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oh y'all KNEW i was gonna give smoky and monty a kid at some point >:3

i'm gonna tl:dr, this a bit, but eventually, Smokescreen finally accepts Montezuma's offer and joins forces with his former nemesis. After befriending the purple cat bastard and coming to understand exactly what Equestria has stolen from him, Smoky can no longer bear to be his country's mindless attack dog. His agency absolutely panics at their prized asset falling into the fiendish clutches of Montezuma and promptly turn on Smokescreen. He is labelled a traitor, there's a massive cover-up, and the agency gets to work secretly trying to capture both Smoky and Monty.

The pair (alongside Monty's minions) spend a good while on the run, traveling all over Equestria, stealing back artifacts, and dealing out vigilante justice wherever needed....and also struggling to deal with their rapidly mounting romantic/sexual tension, right up til the minions get fed up and start concocting increasingly elaborate schemes to hook their idiot boss up with the overgrown gecko. Both hybrids are mortified. The minions might've performed impromptu serenades. They might've forged Monty and Smoky's signatures on presents meant for the other: 'subtle' gifts of flowers and custom lingerie (....how do they know Smoky's hip measurements, anyway??). But eventually, one of these terrible schemes works, and Montezuma and Smokescreen realize they kinda don't want to stop being a team, no matter what happens.

Fortunately for both hybrids, Smoky has a connection through his former boss Bon-Bon, who eventually (against the agency's orders) begins to chip away at the powers that be, eventually landing Montezuma and Smoky audience with Celestia....who pardons them both and throws her hat into Monte's artifact recovery efforts. Many years in the future, while Monty's still a controversial figure (especially by longtime Daring Do fans), he's no longer majority regarded as a terrorist- not after years of charity work and cultural preservation and thwarting would-be villains with Smoky.

1.-3) So. Meet Ellie. Also known as El, or Ella (pronounced Ey-ya), or just El Chupacabra to the locals. Sometime waaaaaay into the future, when Smokescreen has abandoned his agency to become Montezuma's partner, the pair are called to investigate a mystery. Terrified locals speak of a bloodthirsty vampire that stalks their livestock in the night (recall that goats are not sapient in MLP, and are thus utilized on farms), leaving their goats drained and sickly. Montezuma dismisses all this as a silly legend made up to scare children into behaving, but Smoky is less skeptical. After all, he's seen some pretty weird and frightening things in Equestria, including Montezuma in the morning without his eyeliner on. It's a scary world out there.

During the pair's stake-out of a local goat herd, they are attacked (read: Monty is attacked) by a teeny, furious ball of claws and teeth, oh god, so many teeth. El Chupacabra puts up a truly fearsome fight, but Smoky is eventually able to nab her by the tail and rip her off Montezuma. So this is the dreaded chupacabra. Huh. She's kinda......cute.

Ellie's backstory is entirely unknown, and she doesn't seem to remember where she came from. As a feral child of about four years old, Ellie is pretty past the developmental window for language acquisition, and does not seem capable of speech. However, she can understand plenty, and Smoky and Monty are having some success teaching her sign language. As she has no parents (and the locals want her nowhere near their town) Smokescreen and Montezuma begrudgingly take her in. It's meant to be a temporary arrangement until they can find a suitable foster family, with Monty in particular being VERY opposed to a literal bloodsucking demon child living with them, especially as she seems to favor Smoky and bite Monty just for shits and giggles.

Buuuut, much like mange, Ellie just has a certain way of growing on ya....

4.-7.) Dragons are a surprisingly social species. During the laying season, eggs are arranged carefully in communal nesting pits and dutifully tended by every dragon in the Dragon Lands (their efforts supervised by the Dragon Lord, naturally). As eggs need constant heat and monitoring to hatch, dragons tend to have a strong, strong nesting instinct. Hatchlings are raised communally, and any orphaned hatchlings are quickly adopted. This is what Garble was trying to do in the episode Dragon Quest- though he was going about it in a very rough, rude way, he was subconsciously trying to take young Spike under his wing and teach him to survive.

Smoky, being half dragon and half changeling (who are also extremely social, with some changelings being born for the sole purpose of nurturing the Queen's eggs and grubs) is not remotely immune to the instinct to nest. It doesn't matter that Ellie is not his biological offspring, or that she's unlike any child he's ever met- his lizard brain sees a babie, wants to protect babie, simple as that.

This is not the case for Montezuma. Though he quite likes kids (he's got all his minions' kids birthdays memorized and has attended many a baby shower), the idea of being totally responsible for one is terrifying to him. More than anything, Monty fears hurting someone the way he was hurt, and he has little faith in his ability to care properly for Ellie.

notes from a dear patron:

What if when Monty brings her to see Ahuizotl and his face just drops. Turns out that she is the granddaughter or daughter of a long lost friend of his or a friend that has been gone for a long time and Elle is either the last of her species or one of the few that are left. It would offer a mystery for Monty and Smoky to solve. Also I could see Monty getting really invested because it would hit so close to home for him seeing as she mirrors his experience.

Monty would be an absolute mess when it came to kids, or even the very thought of having one of his own. Monty wants the best for Elle and in this current moment I believe he loves her dearly, but he's absolutely petrified that he is going to become like his abusers. I believe that it'll take an "Aha" moment or Smoking signing "the cycle ends with you" for Monty to really become Elle's Dad. In which Monty would be a hot mess and Smoky would just be there comforting him. Now with my other comment I posted on another post of yours. Him realizing that there could be more of Elle's species out there and him wanting to desperately reunite her with a family she doesn't know.....But to young Ellie, Smoky and Monty are her parents. Through a long quest of Monty trying to find her species, he finds out it's become more for him than for Elle, like he needs to prove something to himself. It takes Smoky to make him see that, yes, one day Ellie will want to know about who she is, who her species were, her culture and all that, but right now all she cares about are her two daddies and her grandparents and gnawing on Monty's tail. That's all she wants and needs right now.

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more monty and smoky stuff:

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