Sweet Apple Mystery
Chapter 13: Unfamiliarities
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Next morning, the whole Apple family went out to sell what was left of the harvest that survived the water. Magenta couldn't find her coat, so she was too terrified to go to Ponyville, but Applejack managed to convince her to come with them anyway.
When they entered Ponyville, Magenta walked with her head down and avoided eyecontact. But the ponies didn't seem to remember what happened on the party. So everypony they met only told them how sorry they were for the ranch, and some ponys even bought some of their crops, mostly out of pity. Which AJ didn't like, but she kept her mouth shut.
Suddenly, Magenta noticed a familiar pony in the background.
"The Doctor!" She said to herself and ran after him.
He was walking casually along the street, humming something to himself and looked around.
"Excuse me, Doctor!" Magenta shouted. First, the Doctor didn't seem to hear her, but after she repeated herself, he looked back and saw her. He paused his walking.
"Listen, Doctor! I need you to tell me exactly what you've found out about the farm! I think i met the culprits, but i can't seem to remember them..." Magenta said as soon as she caught up to him.
"Pardon me miss, but do i now you? And how come you know my name?" The Doctor asked suspiciously.
Magentas mouth gaped open and she stared at him. Was he for real? Had he really forgotten about her? Or was he just messing around?
"Errm, it's Magenta? Do you remember me? You told me your name, y'know!" Magenta answered and raised an eyebrow.
"I did?" Doctor said and thought about it for a minute. "Funny, we mustn't have met yet, then..." He mumbled to himself.
"What? Not met yet? I met you last week!" Magenta said, a bit higher than intended. "You were sneaking around our farm, looking for something and buzzing around with that weird doohickey of yours!"
The Doctor looked perplexed.
"I'm sorry, i don't know what you're talking about" He said and smiled cautiously. "But i've got some more important business going on, so if you'll excuse me..." He said and hurried away.
Magentas eye twitched. More important business?
"Excuse me? More important business?" She growled and followed the Doctor. "The Apple familys farm is on the edge of ruin, somepony has been trying to sabotage everything the Apples have worked their hooves off to achieve and even tried to murder a family member, and you got the audacity to claim there is something more important than trying to save our farm?"
The Doctor started trotting, trying to ignore the more and more furious Magenta.
"I AM TALKING TO YOU, 'DOCTOR'!" She shouted and tried to catch up to him. The Doctor began to run faster, and so did Magenta.
Eventually, the Doctor turned into an alley, where Magenta knew there were a dead end. She turned after him into the alley.
"Ah-HA!" She said triumphantly, but the Doctor were nowhere to be seen.
Instead, there were a strange, blue box in the middle of the alley. She slowly walked towards the box.
"Are you hiding in there, Doctor?" She asked, sounding a bit annoyed.
Suddenly she heard a whooshing sound. Just like the one she heard on the farm! Just before the Doctor disappeared.
She looked around for the source of the mysterious sound, and discovered that it came from the blue box!
"W-WAIT!" She shouted when she saw the box slowly disappear with a pulsating light. She ran up to it and tried to grab hold of it, but it was already gone. The only thing her hooves grasped were the air.
She were sitting on the pavement, her jaw almost down on the ground. She must have been hallucinating! Yeah, that was probably it! The last days have been so stressful that it's starting to get to her!
She stood up and decided to go look for the Doctor again, before returning to the others.
The Apples and Magenta headed home when the dark began to fall. Magenta was the only one who could pull the wagon home again. To the market, Rarity had managed to persuade a young, strong stallion to pull it for them. But now, the stallion were nowhere to find so Magenta had to settle with having to pull the wagon.
Luckily it were lighter now, when they had sold practically everything they had brought with them. But it still weren't easy to pull it. Applebloom had to help her by pushing it from behind when they were climbing a hill or got stuck in mud.
When they finally came back to the ruins of Sweet Apple Acres, Magenta were exhausted. Her legs were shaking, she breathed heavily and not to mention the headache from hell...
"Thanks alot, Mags. I don't know what we would have done if you weren't 'round!" Applejack said and gave Magenta a hug. However it turned out sort of awkward, since the wheelchair got in the way.
"No... problems... AJ..." Magenta panted and gave AJ a faint smile.
Suddenly, a mysterious voice echoed through the farm: "FINALLY you're home! We've been waiting for ever!"
Magenta thought the voice sounded eeringly familiar, but she couldn't place her hoof on who it belonged to. Though Applejack looked like she recognized the voice. She looked like she had bitten into a sour apple.
"You two?" She exclaimed as two tall unicorns emerged from the shadows. "I thought we made it clear for you that you ain't welcome 'round these parts anymore!"
"Is this really how you treat guests?" Flam said and stepped out into the faint moonlight. He was shortly followed by Flim.
"Or more importantly, speculants on your... farm?"
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Hmm, this story might be ALOT shorter than what i intended in the first place o.O... Too bad, it was fun to write... As you might notice, the story is about to get wrapped up, and i don't think there will be more than 5 chapters left :/... Oh well, we'll see ^^
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