Sweet Apple Mystery
Chapter 16: Back in Ponyville
Previous Chapter Next ChapterThanks for your review :D, didn't notice it until now, sorry xD... And i make the chapters short on purpose, since i know some people (including myself ^^"...) sometimes get tired off long chapters ^^... But i think these last chapters will be longer, because alot of things will happen in every chapter xD
And yeah, i guessed that Big Mac probably got pretty scary when he gets mad xD. Considering that he's such a heavy pony and probably stronger than he realizes sometimes, so i decided that he should accidentally trash a table xD. And i think his usually timid nature makes him even more scary when he snaps xD
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With a lot of convincing, begging and nagging, they finally managed to persuade the nurses into letting Big Macintosh out. At least for this day. They were still a bit worried about his head, so they send him out with a can of painkillers and they told the Apples that if something happened, like if he lost consciousness, he got nauseous or if his vision got blurry etc, they were to bring Big Mac back right as fast as they could.
Even though they now had two Apple family members in wheelchairs, they all seemed to get a bit securer now when Big Mac was back with them.
Sure, he looked weaker while in a wheelchair, but there were still something strong and respectful about him. Crippled or not, Big Macintosh could surely be a really dangerous opponent if he wanted to.
Big Macintosh, Applejack and Granny Smith wanted to stay on the farm until the night, but Applebloom wanted to be anyplace else but there. And with the FlimFlam brothers and their freaky boss around, nopony dared to let Applebloom go by herself so Magenta offered to go with her.
Magenta and Applebloom walked around the appletree orchard aimlessly, they didn't know what else to do. Eventually Applebloom said:
"I don't want to sell Sweet Apple Acres..."
Magenta jumped a bit, surprised over that the silence got broken. She shook her head.
"I don't think any of us want to..." She said silently. Applebloom stopped.
"It... It just ain't fair! They should be punished for what they've done!" She stomped with her little hoof in the ground. "Thanks to them, Sweet Apple Acres is ruined! Everythin' that we Apples have worked so hard for is gone, and the culprits will get rewarded! They will get exactly what they wanted all along!" Silver glistening tears started to roll down her little, yellow cheeks. "And we can't do anything about it!"
Magenta felt her heart get squeezed by a set of ice cold claws as the little filly started to cry. Magenta bent forward and buffed Applebloom on the forehead.
"There, there! Don't cry Applebloom, everything is going to be alright! You know what my grandma Jackalope used to say?" Magenta said and tried to comfort the filly. Applebloom shook her little head and looked at Magenta with her big, tear filled eyes. "She always said; After rain, comes the rainbow! And that means that no matter how bad everything seem at one point, things will always work out just fine in the end!" Magenta smiled to her, and she gave Magenta a faint smile in return. But then she lowered her head again.
"But we'll lose Sweet Apple Acres, our home! Where will we go then?" She snivelled.
"If those unicorns spoke the truth, then we will have enough money to build a new farm, perhaps even better than Sweet Apple Acres?"
"No place is better than Sweet Apple Acres... I don't care if we will be able to build a whole city, it still won't be the same as our farm..."
Magenta opened her mouth to answer, but she could find any good answer so she shut it again. Applebloom were right. Magenta hadn't lived on the farm for long, but she had already gotten quite attached to the place. But she couldn't possibly imagine how the Apples felt, since they had grown up on this farm!
Suddenly she heard two familiar voices shout to her and Applebloom from afar. Both the filly and the mare turned around to see Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo come running towards them. Applebloom quickly dried her tears and ran to meet her friends. Magenta came trotting after her.
The three fillies chatted away for a while until Applebloom told them about the situation over at Sweet Apple Acres.
They got silent for a while, both Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo looked sad.
"What do you three say about ice cream over at Sugarcube Corner? It's on me!" Magenta said to live up the moody feelings among the fillies. It worked.
The three little fillies started cheering and talked about different ice cream tastes on the way to Ponyville. They discussed back and forth about which ice cream was the best, and worst. Finally, all four of them all agreed that pistachio ice cream was the best and licorice tasted like... "dung".
As they walked through Ponyville to Sugarcube Corner, Magenta found herself looking for the Doctor. But no matter how hard she searched, she couldn't find him anywhere.
"What're you lookin' for Magenta?" Applebloom asked when she noticed that Magenta were looking around.
"A pony... I'm not sure if he's friend or enemy or something in between..." She said and turned to Applebloom. "You don't happen to know anypony with the name 'the Doctor', right?"
"Nu-uh" Applebloom said and shook her head. Magenta didn't respond, just nodded slowly. But she kept looking around, just in case.
Over at the Sugarcube Corner, mr and mrs Cake had heard about what were going to happen to Sweet Apple Acres and gave the four of them each a free cup with pistachio ice cream.
"Thanks alot" Magenta thanked the kind couple.
"I know it's not much, but it's the least we can do for you!" Mrs Cake said and shook her big turqoise head. "Poor things..." She said to her husband as they walked trough the swing doors into the kitchen, at the same time Pinkie Pie exited and bounced over to the Cutiemark Crusaders.
"Hi girls!" She said with her happy, high pitched voice.
"Hello Pinkie!" All four said in unison. Magenta felt a bit happier with Pinkie around. Somehow, this crazy, pink fuzzball of energy seemed to cheer people up by just standing next to them. Pinkie says it is her specialty, along with something called the "Pinkie-sense".
"Are you up to something special today?" She asked and eyed Magentas ice cream with hungry eyes. "Is that pistachio ice cream? I love pistachio ice cream! Even though i once confused it with wasabi! Crazy huh? Can i have a bite?"
"Sure" Magenta said, a bit sceptically and pushed the cup over to Pinkie, who engulfed the whole ice cream in one single bite. She shivered and squeeled for a while.
"Iiih! Brain freeze! That's what i don't like about ice cream and milkshakes! And that's also how i noticed it wasn't pistachio ice cream in the bowl, but wasabi! You don't get brain freeze by wasabi you know!" She said and shook her head. "Are you up to something special today?" she then repeated herself.
"Nah" Applebloom said and stirred her ice cream. "We're just going to sell our farm..."
Pinkie Pie stopped bouncing and frowned.
"Oh yeah..." She said and looked down on the floor.
The five ponies were quiet for awhile, until Magenta broke the silence by standing up and prepared to walk out through the door.
"Pinkie, will you do me a favor?" She asked. Pinkie Pie smiled and nodded violently. "Great, could you make sure the fillies gets home safely? I need to talk to Twilight Sparkle"
"Sure thing! You can count on me!" Pinkie said and nodded like a bobblehead. Magenta nodded to her and went out to search for Twilight.
But she didn't get far until a pegasi crashed into her side and made them both fall to the ground. Magenta got up and were just about to ask if the pegasi was okay when she noticed it was Derpy Hooves. Magenta smiled faintly and shook her head.
"Derpy, Derpy, Derpy..." She chuckled. Derpy sat up with a smile, which made her googly complexion look even goofier.
"Me me me!" She giggled and tried to focus her eyes on Magenta, but without success. Magenta wondered to herself if maybe Derpy had double vision, maybe that was why she crashed into everything.
"Uh, oh yeah! I've got a, uh, message for you, Magentah!" She said and tilted her head, making the eyes roll even more.
Magenta had a hard time keeping her from giggling. Derpy was sort of adorable.
"Yeah! Uh, what was it now again?..." The gray pegasi said and wondered for awhile. "Oh yeah! Everythings going to be okay!" She cheered up when she remembered her message.
Magenta frowned. "Huh?"
"Yeah!" Derpy nodded frantically. "I met the Doctor, and he told me to tell you that everything will be okay as long as Applejack don't sign the paper!"
Magenta froze. How did Derpy know the Doctor? And how come he went to Derpy to tell her this?
"You know the Doctor?" Magenta asked chocked. Derpy smiled widely and nodded even more. "How?" Magenta wanted to know.
"Oh, he's my best friend! We used to travel together!" Derpy answered and started flapping her wings.
"Where does he travel?" Magenta continued to ask.
"Anytime, anyplace!" Derpy cheered. "Toodeeloo!" She said and took off up into the air.
"What? No! Wait! Derpy!" Magenta shouted out to the whimsy pegasi, but she had already taken off and started a wobbly and erratic journey towards Cloudsdale.
Magenta sighed. Great, the only pony who knew the Doctor except herself was Derpy Hooves. And she had the attention span of a goldfish!
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