Ellie (Patreon)

friendship ended with Snap, now Ellie is my best friend

Snap, my first crack at a Monty/Smoky offspring, never sat right with me. Probably cuz she looked too much like a neopet (no shade at neopets), just kinda cute in a bland way and not nearly weird enough. Smokescreen and Montezuma are very, very odd people, it stands to reason that any child of theirs would be really fucking weird.

Anyway this is 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 well 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....