Sweet Apple Mystery
Chapter 14: The offer
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Magenta froze. She knew these ponies... But from where? WHERE HAD SHE SEEN THEM BEFORE? She was getting frustrated. Why couldn't she just remember?
"First of all, our farm is NOT for sale, an' second of all; if it were, we would sell it to anypony except for YOU!" Applejack growled. "Now, GET AWAY FROM OUR FARM!"
"Or what? You'll send Big Macintosh on us?" Flim snickered. "Didn't he have a little..." He poked at his head. "...accident?"
Applejack turned red in her face. If she could walk, she would have thrown herself over them both and wipe that grin off their faces, forever!
"But, how do you know about that?" Magenta exclaimed. Both of the unicorns flinched when they noticed her. They suddenly looked really nervous and gave each other cautious looks. But then one of them relaxed and put on that wide smile again. The younger one still looked a bit nervous though.
"Oh you know, news travel fast!" Flam laughed. "Well, if you ponies won't sell to us, then maybe our friend here might be able to convince you to think otherwise?" he said and both him and his brother stepped aside for a third unicorn. He was a bit shorter, with long light blonde mane and light blue fur. His dark eyes flashed as he studied the Apple ponies.
Magenta saw his cutiemark. It was an hourglass, just like the Doctors. Were they related? Did that mean, that the Doctor also were one of the bad guys?
"Yes, as my friends Flim and Flam here just were pointing out..." The third unicorn said. He said somehing more, but Magenta didn't listen. His voice... His face... Flim and Flam...
Everything came back to her... Her horrible dream... And she were flushed up somewhere in the Everfree forest where she ran into Flim and Flam. She soon figured them out and they started chasing her down. She managed to damage Flam, but Flim... Flim saved her...
She locked eyes with Flim and the stallion took a frightened step back. He knew that she remembered now.
"Applejack!" Magenta said and turned to AJ. "These are the ones who have been sabotaging Sweet Apple Acres! I remember now, i met Flim and Flam in the Everfree forest, and i managed to escape from them. But i hit my head on a rock, i think thats why i forgot!"
Flim got shifty eyes again and Flam clenched his teeth together. Straining himself to not attack the mare. The third unicorn however, he stayed calm and didn't move a muscle.
"Really? Have you got any proof?" He said and grinned.
Magenta opened her mouth to say something, but closed it. He were right, she didn't have any proof...
Her lack of answer made the unicorns grin grow even wider and meaner.
"You can't just accuse ponies to the left, right and centre without proper evidence!" The third unicorns sighed and shook his head, still maintaining eyecontact with Magenta.
Applejack cranked her teeth. She didn't need prof, she knew what Magenta said was true.
"I said, go away from our farm!" Applejack repeated herself, this time slower.
"Oh, you want us to leave, before you even heard our propecision?" the nameless unicorn said, acting shocked.
"That's raight! We ain't sellin', ya hear!" Applebloom exclaimed and managed to get away from Granny Smith, who tried to hold the filly back. "This is OUR farm! An' if you cowards hadn't hurt Big Macintosh, then he would kick your sorry flanks back from where you came!" She added and stood between Applejack and Magenta.
"Yeah, but your Big Macintosh aren't here, am i right?" the unicorn snickered. He looked at Applejack. "Hear us out; if you sell us the farm, you'll get enough money to start up a new farm somewhere else, ten times the size of Sweet Apple Acres!"
"An' if we still refuse?" Applejack snorted.
"That would certainly complicate things... Especially for you" the unicorn said and maintained his evil grin. "How else are you going to pay all those hospital bills? Or for the rebuidling of your farm?"
"We'll manage somehow. We always had!" Applejack said without wasting any breath.
"You Apples are really starting to get on my nerves!" Flam gnarled and took a step forward, but was stopped by their boss.
"Now now, Flam. We will solve this without any means of violence...!" He said and patted Flam on the head, like he was some sort of young colt who got just did something wrong by accident.
"Allright then, Applejack. I know our sudden appearance here might be the reason of your inability to cooperate with us, so we will give you some time to consider our offer." The unicorn said and turned around, nodding to Flim and Flam to follow him. "Oh and i better repeat myself so you don't forget; if you accept, you won't only be able to pay some juicy bills, you will also be able to build a new farm, much larger than this pile of garbage!" With those words, he vanished into the shadows. Flam were soon to follow, but Flim hesitated, looked back at the Apple family with a guilty look on his face.
"Sorry..." He whispered before following his brother and boss.
Shortly after, they could hear the rythmic and monotone "ka-chunk ka-chunk ka-chunk" of the trios transportation device.
"Applejack... We won't sell our farm to those stinkbags, will we?" Applebloom asked beggingly, after the noise had gone away into the dark.
Applejack sighed and shook her head. "I don't know, Applebloom... I don't know..."
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