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Sweet Apple Mystery

by Adelilah

Chapter 19: The fight for Sweet Apple Acres

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I'm so, so sorry you guys had to wait WEEKS (maybe even months?) for the finalé of Sweet Apple Mystery :(... But our router broke in a thunderstorm so we doesn't have a mean to access the internet for a long time. Plus I've been sick for two weeks and I fear I STILL haven't recovered...
Anyway, I managed to borrow Adelies computer so I could upload this. Once again, I'm so, so sorry for the wait :/! I hope this ending is worth it ^^
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The Doctor didn't move a muscle. He was probably the only one who wasn't totally confused.
"Eh? Say what? What's Gallihay?" Rainbow Dash asked and scratched her head.
"Golem? That sounds scary..." Fluttershy mumbled and slightly coiled back.
"Oh it is, believe me..." The Doctor said. "It is a creation of both metal and flesh made by the old Gallihayans, a race of ponies far more advanced than you. The Golem were built to harvest the power of suns and giant stars. With the power it harvested, it had the ability of doing practically anything. But the Gallihayans kept it for themselves, refusing to let it aid anypony else. But when the inhabitants of Equestria were threatened by the so called Cyberponies more than four hundred years ago, one of the Gallihayans stole it and brought it to Equestria, where it defeated the Cyberponies."

The Master interrupted the Doctor with a loud cackle. "Yeah, and wonder who that might have been that stole the Golem!" He smirked.

The Doctor rolled his eyes and sighed. "Alright then, it was me who stole it. I was young and stupid, but that doesn't matter right now! Anyway, after the war with the Cyberponies, the Golem was praised as the savior of Equestria and even got to live at the Royal Palace in Canterlot! But all the praises and rewards spoiled the Golem and made it too proud and unreliable.

One day, the Gallihayan who stole it, errm... me, came to take it back to its rightful home, but it refused to leave. Instead it went on a rampage that nearly destroyed Canterlot. Thankfully, me and Princess Celestia managed to defeat it, and she made sure that the Golem were buried underground and forgotten. Until now that is..."

Everypony listen carefully to the Doctors story. Big Macintosh and Applejack looked skeptical to the story, while Twilight Sparkle and Magenta found it intriguing.

"Is- is this some kind of joke?" Applejack asked and frowned. "Cause none of us find it funny!"

"Yes, if its a prank! Cuz that means its funny!" Pinkie Pie said and bounced. Applejack sighed.

"But this is not a prank, I'm afraid" The Master said. "I will use the power of the Golem to rebuild Gallihay! Nothing is impossible for the Golem y'know!"

"But to recreate an entire planet with a civilization like the Time Ponies would force the Golem to absorb all the suns in the nearby 30000 galaxies! Thus destroying life on thousands of planets!" The Doctor implied. "No matter what the cause, that price isn't worth it!"

"Yes it is! For Gallihay it is!" The Master started to sound hysterical. Suddenly he spun around. "Wait! What're you doing? No!" He gasped in horror as he saw Applejack snatch the Devils Deal and the Doctor quickly drew out something from out of nowhere. Magenta recognized it as the gizmo the Doctor used to buzz around with on the farm last week.

Holding it in his mouth, he managed to point the thingamagee at the paper and it did that slightly annoying buzzing sound. The paper shivered and all the letters forged together and the paper went black and crumbled.

The Master stared as the paper crumbled. He closed his eyes, drew a deep breath and opened his eyes again. He had regained his smirk. If he was pissed about the thing with the paper, he sure didn't show it.

But Applejack stared in chock back and forth between the paper, that was now a black pile of dust on the ground, and The Doctor. She had intended to rip it in pieces, but The Doctor had been quicker than her and used that thingy to incinerate it instead.

"Master, give it up! You are outnumbered, plus you just lost your Devils Deal!" Magenta said and tried to hold back a cough. "And there's no way the Apples will sell you the farm now!"
"Magenta, Magenta, Magenta..." The Master laughed dryly. "You don't think I could do fine without the Devils Deal?" He said as calm as he could, but a twitching eye gave away the suppressed anger. He ran his hoof to his eye again. "Seriously?" He mumbled and rubbed the eye.

Big Macintosh had regained balance enough to stand up straight.

"Magenta's right! And if I were you, I'd get running. Big Macintosh doesn't look all that happy!" Applejack warned, and Big Mac scraped with his hoof in the ground to underline what his sister had said. The Master lifted one eyebrow.

"He can't even stand straight?" He said with a mocking smirk. He was right. The ground seemed to be moving underneath Big Macs hooves as he staggered to keep his balance. However, Big Mac isn't to be underestimated. The Master soon got to learn that when Big Mac suddenly dashed forward to the Master. The Master barely jumped out of the way, causing the big red stallion to heavily crash down in the dirt. Everypony quickly drew their breath. The Master angrily turned to Flim and Flam.

"What are you two dimwits waiting for?! GET HIM!" He shouted and pointed to Big Mac, who was struggling to get up on his four hooves again.

Flam turned to obey his masters command, but Flim got in his way again.

"No you're not!" Flim said and his horn started to glow green. A long, thin, green rope made from magic quickly lashed out from Flims glowing horn and started to constric Flam.

"You've gotta be kidding!" Flam grunted and only had to lash out with his horn to undo Flims spell."You KNOW I'm the bigger brother, why do you even try?"

"To keep you distracted ofcourse!" Flim smiled as somepony suddenly hit Flam in the back of his head with something big, black and heavy. When Flam fell to the ground, Magenta became visible behind him with a frying pan in her mouth.

Flim frowned. "Where did you even get that?"

Magenta spit it out and pointed to a pile of rubble. "Well, there's all sorts of junk just lying around here, y'know!" She said and shrugged.

Flim nodded. "I guess that makes sense, right?"

Suddenly a black beam hit the ground right in front of Flim and Magenta, and left a smoking, black crater.

"My patience was already running low when I came here tonight..." The Master growled and lowered his glowing horn to fire again. "I feel I just have to congratulate you ponies; it takes a lot for me to actually lose my temper, but you seem to have succeeded!" Suddenly the Master swiftly turned around, facing the Doctor. "AND WORSE OF THEM ALL IS YOU, DOCTOR GOODY-TWO-HOOVES!" He cried out and shot another beam towards the unprepared Doctor. But just as he shot, one of the unicorns sent a small pebble flying and it hit the Master right behind his ear. The Master staggered and the beam were sent a bit out of course. It whistled right next to the Doctors chin and hit a tree behind him instead. The Master turned angrily around to face the one responsible for the pebble.

It was Rarity. She held another pebble in the air with her magic and corrected her curly mane with one of her hooves.

"You do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?" She said without looking at the Master.

"BOORIING!" Pinkie booed and kept stacking pebbles in a small pile next to Rarity for her to use.

The Master was almost boiling with anger. "Why you little..." He started and fired up his horn again when a dented old bucket hit him in the head from the air. He lost his concentration and yelped in surprise. He looked up and saw Fluttershy.

"Oh, I'm sorry..." Fluttershy squeaked. "...I-I dropped it...!"

The Master didn't have time to retort when another pebble came whistling right past him, immediately followed by a hard hoof in the face. From Big Macintosh!

The powerful punch from the big stallion sent the Master flying. He landed right past the Doctor. Big Mac staggered for a bit, the will to get up and walk up to the Master and deliver that punch had taken most of his strength and now he was exhausted. He almost fell to the ground, if Magenta and Rainbow Dash hadn't hurried to support him.

"Thanks..." He mumbled as the two mares helped him to get back to the chair.

"No problems, Mac..." Rainbow and Magenta said in unison.

The Doctor turned to look at the Master. His enemy was trying to get up, but his legs were weak and his head was spinning. His right eye began to swell and a dark bruise formed around it. He didn't say anything, he just grinded his teeth and looked at the gang of ponies who defeated him. He felt anger and humiliation build up in his chest and he wanted to crush those lower lifeforms more than anything, but right now he couldn't even get back up on his hooves!

"Are ya okay, Big Mac?" A worried Applejack asked her brother.

"I'm fine, mah hoof hurts a bit tho... Hope I didn't break it!" Big Mac answered and grimaced.

Suddenly the familiar whooshing sound of the Doctors blue box echoed once again. Surprised, they all turned around the see the box slowly fade away. Both the Doctor and the Master were nowhere to be seen.

"... I hope I'm not the only one confused here..." Magenta said once the box had vanished completely and the sound had died off. Her friends all shook their heads.

"Trust me sugarcube, you ain't!" Applejack said. She closed her eyes and sighed. "Now what? What'll we do now?" Everypony got silent, none of them had any answer for that. Except for Pinkie Pie ofcourse;

"Rebuild the farm? Helloo?!"

"Yeah right, with what money?" Applejack asked sarcastically.

"With this!" Flim answered and handed them a briefcase he retrieved from the SSCS. The ponies opened it and everyone gasped in unison over the content: Money.

More bits than any of them had ever seen before!

"Apples! We've got a farm to rebuild!" Applejack cheered and her eyes started to fill with tears of joy. She looked at Flim, speechless. "W-why...?" Was all she could say.

"Because we owe you that, at least!" He answered and looked down on the ground. "I'm really sorry for everything we've caused you. I'm sure my brother feels the same. I know that we won't be able to repay you guys enough to make up for the damage we caused..." He said and glimpsed to his brother, who was still knocked out.

Magenta got an idea and whispered it to Applejack. Applejack nodded.

"Well, actually..." Applejack started to say. Flim looked up at her. "When we rebuild this thing, we will need every hoof we can get. If you and your brother were to help us, we might just actually call us even!"

Flim smiled and nodded. "It's a deal! I'll tell him as soon as he wakes up!"

"IF he ever wakes up!" Rainbow laughed. "What did you hit him with, Mags?"

Magenta shrugged. "I just grabbed first best thing I could get my hooves on, I didn't know frying pans were so heavy!"

Everypony began to smile, that smile soon turned into a hearty laughter. Lets just say that their mood had definitively changed! Now everything, were going to change for the better!

The following months passed in a blur. The rebuilding of Sweet Apple Acres went fast, since almost everypony in Ponyville helped, plus a whole bunch of ponies from the town Appleloosa.

Flim and Flam also joined in the work as best as they could. Flam was quiet and mostly he didn't speak to anypony else but to Flim. Especially not to Magenta. The mood between those two were... tense.

However, Flim and Magenta became good friends. He was actually a really funny guy, Magenta thought. Even though his brother was a pain in the flank sometimes... They both have wondered about Flams behavior and change of nature he displayed, and they suspect that he might have been under the influence of a Devils Deal. Flam himself still refused to explain what happened.

As soon as Applejacks legs healed, she was out working. To her doctors dismay. Applejack? Stay away from work? Hah! What a joke!

But what about the Doctor? Well, nopony had even seen as much as a glimpse of the Doctor since he and the Master vanished. Except for Magenta.

It was night, Magenta tossed and turned in her bed. She couldn't sleep. She was far to worked up! Even though she had been working all day, she still found herself with far to much energy left!

Eventually, she couldn't take it anymore. She quietly got up and put on her new coat she got from Rarity. They had never found her old coat, and she missed it. But the new one weren't that bad. In fact, she loved it! It was dark pinkish purple, a color called magenta, with white collar, and not so delicate as her previous gift from Rarity was.

She sneaked out of the half-finished house, careful not to wake anypony up, since the whole gang from Appleloosa also slept in there.

She tiptoed among the sleeping ponies spread all over the floor, careful not to step on anypony. When she finally made it out of the labyrinth of ponies and got out to the farmyard, she headed straight for the apple orchard.

Walking amongst the newly planted trees made her remember all the times she helped with the applebucking. Boy, that seemed like a whole lifetime ago!

"I knew I'd find you here..." The voice came so sudden and scared Magenta. She shrieked, jumped around and nearly kicked the pony who had spoken. She almost couldn't recognize him in shadows of the trees, but soon the dark blue eyes and ruffled dark brown mane became clear.

"You?!" Magenta gasped.

The Doctor nodded. "Yes, me! Did I scare you?"

"What made you think that?" Magenta hissed, still shaken from the shock he gave her. "Where is that Master guy?"

"Oh, he won't trouble anyone for a while! At least I don't hope so..." He answered and shrugged. None of them said anything for a while.

Finally Magenta just had to ask: "Who are you really? And what the hay went on back there?"

"That's a good question, my friend" The Doctor said and sighed. "Your first question is pretty tricky, no one can actually answer a question like that. I can only say that I'm the Doctor, just your average Doctor, traveling around the universe as a hobby. And what the hay it was that went on back there was another one like me tried to bring our extinct race back to life by using a force that should never have been created in the first place. Now does that answer your question?"

"No!" Magenta frowned, even more confused by his fuzzy answer. "It doesn't! What is that blue box? And that weird screwdriver thingy you used? And WHAT is Gallihay?!"

"The blue box thing is called a T.A.R.D.I.E, and that scre..." The Doctor started to explain, but were interrupted by Magenta: "T.A.R.D.I.E? And why does it look like a policebox?"

"Yes, Time And Relative Dimensions In Equestria, and it got stuck like that once. But anyway, that screwdriver is actually called a Sonic Screwdriver, with it I can do pretty much anything, and Gallihay is" He paused, closed his eyes and sighed again. Looking rather pained. "... was my home... and..." he said, but his voice was too low to continue. He shook his head and looked at Magenta again. " You know what? I think its much easier if you came with me and saw everything for yourself instead!"

Magenta lifted one eyebrow. "In that little phonebox?"

"Believe me, its bigger on the inside!" The Doctor teased. "Besides, doesn't it sound great to meet Starswirl the bearded? Or perhaps even Princess Celestia and Princess Lunas parents? They were really cool ponies! Or maybe something much more far away: Barrack Obama, the President of the United States, a country on a planet called 'Earth'! Plus some of the natives of Earth really LOVES ponies! Oh and did I mention, in the year 2012 they are going to have a HUGE competition called 'the Olympic Games' in London, my favorite town!"

Magenta couldn't help but to laugh. "Sure, that sounds great, but..."

"But?"

"But I think I'm more needed here" Magenta explained. "They need my help to rebuild Sweet Apple Acres, and I just can't with good conscience leave my friends behind when they need my help!"

The Doctor tipped his head and mumbled to himself: "Thats weird... Nopony has ever declined before..." He was quiet for a while before he spoke to Magenta again. "Fair enough! But let me know if you change your mind, okay?"

Magenta nodded and watched as the Doctor disappeared among the trees. Soon she could hear the box, the T.A.R.D.I.E, disappear. Probably off to Earth to see that Olympic thingy...

Magenta smiled to herself as she walked back to her bed. Finally she'd maybe would get some sleep.

"Dear Princess Celestia

My name is Magenta, I am a close friend of your student Twilight Sparkle.

I want to share something I learned about friendship thanks to Twilight and the others.

I've never had many friends, due to the fact that I am still a blankflank. So when I moved to Ponyville, I tried to hide it from everypony. Even though I would entrust my life to the friends I made there, I still wouldn't let them know I was a blankflank. I know now that it was unnecessary. For even after they found it I was without a cutiemark, they still stayed by my side. They didn't even care about it! And they tried to encourage me not to do it either!

I've now realized that real friends are not the ones that stick together because they are the same, but the ones who do because of their differences! I mean, if everypony were the same we would only grow tired of each other eventually, and maybe a fight would occur and everypony would end up as enemies! While friends who realize that everypony's different, might take things more lightly, and not get upset over everything!

Even though it still hurts that I've lost my dear grandma Jackalope, I think having to move to grandmas best friend and her family in Ponyville was the best thing ever happened to me. Here, I've got the best friends anypony could ask for. We might be different like night and day, but we always stick together no matter what.

Signed

Magenta Jackalope Apple"

The graceful white alicorn looked up from the letter and smiled to herself as she turned to her friend in the corner.

"Why this mare?" Celestia asked her friend. "Why decide to ask just her to come with you?"

The light brown earth pony shrugged. "Why not? She is quick with with analyzing a situation and is not afraid to take action. She's a fast learner and seems like a rather smart mare with her mind in the right place. She doesn't seem like the one to get in my way if we were traveling around."

Celestia smiled. "And you think she'll just tag along with you then? She seems pretty attached to her friends"

The Doctor laughed. "Well Princess, so far nopony has ever declined a ride in the T.A.R.D.I.E. Not even you, remember?"

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And THERE you have it! My first fanfic is FINISHED xD! YAAAY!

Once again, I'm sorry for the ridiculously long wait and I hope this ÜBERLONG ending was worth it ^^!

Thanks everypony who faved and reviewed, you are all amazing (V)! I hope to write another adventure with Magenta sometime in the future (hopefully my grammar will be improved by then xD), but until then: GOODBYE EVERYPONY!

Delilah OUT!

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