Chapter 12: Apple Family Reunion Part 2 (The Reunion)

A/N: And here's the reunion! Harry will meet some of his colt cousins and hang out with some older ones too. CoughBraeburnCough And a certain Seed finally makes her appearance! Please Leave a Review! And VONDON whatever your name is, STOP SPAMMING ME WITH GUEST REVIEWS! NOT COOL!

COCK A DOODLE DOO! The Rooster crowed signaling morning had come.

"Rise and shine!" Applejack pulled Harry's covers off and the colt woke with a jolt.

"Huh, what?" He asked in sleepiness. Rubbing his eyes.

"We don't have much time if ya wanna help."

"But you said I was...okay!" Harry said eagerly jumping out of bed and following his momma out to the farm while Granny Smith started breakfast.

The apple young'uns all got to the task of bucking apples. Harry's first Apple bucking! He eagerly kicked a full tree repeatedly and lots of apples fell into the buckets surrounding it. Filling them up.

"Yep. Your Earth Pony strength is definitely comin' in." Applejack said proudly.

"Eeyup."

"Nicely done." Apple Bloom agreed and the two clapped hooves.

After bucking several more trees each, the four where called into breakfast by Granny Smith.

Harry went into town with Applejack to Rarity's to get the supplies. Applejack had a big cart, him a little one for later when they where getting all that honey. Rarity gladly supplied them with ribbons and cloth. But before they left She levitated a ribbon to Applejack's cart and tied it around two cloth spools.

Next they got the honey from Pinkie Pie at Sugarcube corner. Applebloom had joined them. Pinkie poured honey straight from hives into a big barrel in Harry's cart. Then had some herself before burping and watching a fly fly out of her mouth.

"Don't forget the glitter!" She called down and threw down a bucket of glitter...which covered Harry's body completely so now he had Applejack's color coat. He coughed and sparkly dust flew out of his mouth. Applebloom and his mother giggled at his predicament.

As Big Macintosh layed out firewood in a nice big pile, Harry brought over a raincloud with his pegasi magic (Rainbow Dash had been teaching him in her spare time) And eagerly bounced on it letting the rain fill the buckets his mother had laid out. Also soaking Applejack. After shaking her body free of water, a swift lightning bolt struck her and left her looking burnt and smoking. Harry hid sheepishly behind the cloud as his momma glared at him.

And finally, after getting the cooking pots on their respective wooden places, Applejack clicked Spike like a lighter, and soon enough the baby dragon let loose an emerald flame that ignited the wood.

A fluttering Harry attached a rope with triangle shaped colorful cloth across it to the other apple pole as he called them at the gates of Sweet Apple Acres. He fluttered back down to his family.

"That oughta do it." Applejack said eagerly.

"And just in time too." Granny Smith added.

Various "Whoo" and "Yahoos" where called out as wagons of all shapes and sizes approached, even a balloon arrived at the Reunion site.

Out of one wagon popped out two young fillies and a colt foal. Who looked a lot like Big Macintosh. And along with them...

"Apple Rose!" Granny Smith embraced her favorite cousin in a sisterly hug.

"This is more exciting than when it rained frogs!" Said one mare as various relatives greeted those they where close too. Two older colts greeted each other with a signature hoofshake.

"Howdy'all." Applejack greeted her family through a voice amplifier. "Welcome to the Apple Family Reunion!"

Various Hoots and Hollers of eagerness.

"I just want ya all to know that I got a real busy day planned for ya'll. But first, I got somepony to introduce to everyone."

The Apples all gaped as a little colt fluttered down onto the stage next to Applejack. He was smaller than Applebloom, but bigger than the foals that where brought with Apple Rose. He had WINGS AND A HORN! That was what surprised most.

"About 9 years ago, somepony left this lil' fella at the gates of Sweet Apple Acres in a basket." She put a leg around Harry. "We took him in and well, long story short, meet my son." She said. "Harry. Let's give him a big Apple Family Welcome."

And what a welcome Harry got indeed. Whistles, hoof stomping and more!

"All right, well first off." Harry hopped down and joined a group of foals his size as Applejack started talking about the day. But before that looked around for Apple Bloom who was sure to find Babs first. "We got a Obstacle Course for the young'uns."

She saw Harry eagerly talking to various cousins his age.

"And Frittering and Quilting for the not so young'uns."

A mother and father nodded to each other eagerly.

"Hope ya'll enjoy it! Cause there's lots more to come!"

The Apple Family all cheered. Eager to get started.

"Where is she?" Apple Bloom asked herself. Then she looked around and saw her blowing her pink mane up. "Babs!" She said eagerly.

"Cuz!" Babs said eagerly and the two embraced.

"I know it hadn't been that long since we've seen each other, but it felt like forever!" The two said the last bit at the same time.

"Babs!" Harry said eagerly galloping toward her and skidding to a halt. "Check it out!" He showed her his flank.

"Ya got yer Cutie Mark! Awesome!" Babs said encouragingly.

"I stil don't have the dangdest idea what it means though." The grandson of Celestia said as he rubbed his head in confusion. The triangle shaped Cutie Mark was a mystery to him and his grandmother indeed. Though she swore she had seen that symbol somewhere before.

"See ya later!" Harry ran off with another Red coated/blonde maned colt that reminded him of his uncle.

"I can't wait to tell ya about my new school!" Babs said.

"I can't wait to hear all about it!" Apple Bloom said eagerly as they started walking away.

"Jeepers! Where do I start, so first day-" Babs started.

"Babs! Glad to see ya could make it!"

"What? And miss out on spending time with mah favorite cousin? Forget about it!" Babs said in her Manehattanish way blowing her mane up out of her eyes again.

"Why don't ya'll head out to the obstacle course?" Applejack started pushing the two foals toward it with her head.

"We kinda wanna catch up a lil' bit first." Apple Bloom protested.

"Don't you worry, there'll be plenty of time for family bondin' when yer racing against your other cousins." Applejack said eagerly.

The two fillies knew this wouldn't end well...

"All right, ya'll ready to race?"

First race was Apple Bloom and Babs, Harry and his new Red coated Macintosh look alike friend, and two other fillies.

"Woah! Is that the finish line? Its like a mile away or somethin'!" Babs protested pointing to a far away hill.

Actually a mile and a half. Harry thought. If only my new friend had wings too!

"Actually, that's just the mark that ends the first half of the race." Applejack said as if it was obvious.

"There's more?" Apple Bloom asked.

"Much more. Trust me. I've put something together you are never gonna forget. After the seven legged race, yer gonna wanna hurry on back here. Where you'll be bobbing for apples!: Applejack put her head in the bucket of cider with apples floating and came up with three apples. She dropped ate them. "Then yer gonna run around these here trees 50 times till yer real good and dizzy, then you'll jump these big wooden hurdles and then in the final lap of the course, you'll balance these plates while saying "Papy pony picked a pack of pirickly plump nuggets over and over and over again. Last pony standing wins."

The foals all looked at her incredulously. "Seriously?" Apple Bloom asked.

"Is your mom nuts?" Harry's new friend asked him.

"No, just over eager." Harry said in apology.

"Come on ya'll! Let's start making some memories!" She shot a starting pistol into the air.

The foals took off. Harry and his new favorite cousin his age tripped a few feet away, but got right back up and went on.

"Looking good everypony!" Applejack said after Apple Bloom and Babs only finished a quarter of the way and growled in frustration. "Better go check on the quilt."

The two younger, but still elderly mares where admiring Applesauce's shiny dentures.

"How long ya had them new chompers auntie Applesauce?"

"A lady never reveals the true age of her teeth." Applesauce put a hoof to her chest while Granny Smith giggled and Apple Rose rolled her eyes.

"Don't you roll your eyes at me Apple Rose! And don't think I don't remember what you two did to my parasol, six Reunions ago!"

The two cousins giggled like litttle fillies. "We was just using it to help break open that Pinata!"

More giggling.

"Applejack, delightful to see ya dear." Applesauce greeted her great niece. "Your son is adorable. Are you gonna join us in some quilting?"

"Sorry auntie Applesauce. I'm am busy busy busy." Applejack made her way to the table. "But you should get started!"

"We couldn't find our rocking chairs." Granny Smith explained.

"I got rid of 'em to make room for these." Applejack unveiled the family's new gas powered sewing machines. "This years the year ya'll are gonna finally finish that quilt."

"Finish it?" Apple Rose asked. Applejack didn't seem to realize that finishing the quilt wasn't the most important thing to the mares of the family.

Applejack pulled the cord and the machines roared to life.

Granny Smith put her hooves over her ears. They where so loud!

Applesauce's dentures chattered out of her mouth. She pushed them back in sheepishly.

"Won't that be excitin'?" Applejack asked.

"What's that?" Apple Rose asked.

"I said, won't that be excitin'?" She said the last part after flipping the switch off and the machines died down a bit with the noise.

Apple Rose and Granny Smith looked at each other with Applesauce between them.

"I suppose, though I have been told that too much excitement can be bad for this youthful complexion of mine."

"Oh." Apple Rose rolled her eyes again making her way to the sewing table.

Granny Smith giggled again. Also making her way to the table with the other two mares. They pulled the rip cords and got started.

"That's the spirit!" Applejack said eagerly over the loudness of the machines.

"What'd she say?" Granny Smith asked Apple Rose.

"What?"

"Good gracious." Granny Smith waved her cousin off. They had gotten old!

"Golden Delicious? He's racin' with his cousins I think!"

Granny Smith shook her head sadly and focused on her quilting.

Back at the foals race, the foals where finally at the dizzy trees.

"How'r Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle?"

"Their doing great!" Apple Bloom said. She groaned and rolled her eyes funny.

"What's wrong?" Babs asked her cousin.

"So dizzy." Apple Bloom finally fell down.

Babs groaned as she stopped to make sure Apple Bloom was okay...

At the Baking area, Big Macintosh took a fresh fritter out of the oil. After dropping it on a plate, he inhaled its delicious aroma. After looking around sneakily, he scarfed it down just before Applejack showed up. He grinned at her with his ears down sheepishly and whistled innocently.

The mares molding the fruit treats where talking about their foals. "My Apple Tart may be a baby but he sure is a hoot and half." One mare said.

Then Applejack reminded them that they where an assembly line. "Gotta keep the assembly line moving gals! We want every Apple here to get a taste of the best fritters in Equestria!"

"Papy Ponie picked a pack of prickle plump nuggets!" The foals where in the final part of the race.

"Any blank flanks at your new school?"

"Two." Babs replied.

"Papy Ponie picked a pack of prickly plump nuggets!"

"Do they wanna be Crusaders?"

"Totally!" Babs said.

"I can't feel my tongue." Harry said to his new friend.

"Me neither." Apple Bloom said to her psuedo nephew

"What's wrong with momma?" Harry mumbled with his tongue out.

"I don't know." Apple Bloom replied.

"All right Apples! Break!" Applejack said finally at around noon. Everypony collapsed in exhaustion.

"Finally." Apple Bloom said. Harry curled up next to his colt cousin for a short was still a smaller foal after all.

"Almost forgot! Gotta catch some memories for Granny's album!" Applejack made her way up to the camera. After snapping a photo of the curled up HArry next to his new friend, she looked around to the other areas of the race. "Nothing there." She said, moving on to the quilting area. "Or there..." She looked over to the baking area. "Or there...Come on Applejack, you gotta kick this thing up a notch."

"I get that my big sis wants this to be a super awesome reunion, but that was ridiculous." Apple Bloom said to Babs.

"I thought we'd never get a minute to just hang out." Babs agreed.

"And yer minute's up!" The two looked up from the hay bale they where hiding behind. Applejack had found them. "Your fellow Apples are waiting for you to join 'em!"

"Applejack!" Apple Bloom protested. "I haven't had any time with Babs! We where so busy with that obstacle course that Babs and I didn't get any chance to talk!"

"There'll be plenty of time for talking with Babs on the Hay ride.

"Hay ride?" Babs asked nervously.

A few couple of hours later ponies where lining up for the nice, relacing Hay Ride they where expecting...

"Step right up everypony and take a seat, and leave the driving to these fine stallions." Applejack gestured to two train pullers she hired on her own expense. "Now I know you all have been working hard making some awesome memories. And near the end of every Reunion, the Apple Family takes nice, relaxing Hay Ride around the farm."

One stallion colt not yet an adult put his hooves behind his head in relaxation. Harry and his new friend clapped hooves next to Big Macintosh.

"Which is why I decided to step things up a teeny tiny bit to make things just a bit more excitin'"

"Oh no." Harry muttered.

"So let's get this show on the road! Giddy' up!" Applejack slammed the back of the cart closed and bucked it. The two stallions took off at a fast pace.

Harry nearly flew out of the cart but his new friend caught him and pulled him back down after bumping a large rock in the way. Applesauce's dentures chattered right out of her mouth, flew into the air, and chomped Big Macintosh's nose. She mumbled an un-understandable apology and accepted her dentures back from the large, red stallion.

"Where in the world does that girl have us headed? The West orchard?" Granny Smith asked.

Harry stood up on the cart with Big Macintosh on his back. "Eeyup." Harry said. He had picked up some things from his uncle you see.

"What? I was jokin'!" Granny Smith said in protest. "Why we haven't tended those fields since all the trees went and got filled up with-" She gasped.

Applejack spied the cart coming. She bucked a tree. Colorful fruit bats of every color of the rainbow flew in a Rainbow arc.

The Apples in the cart ooed and awwed.

"Wowza. I've never seen a real Fruit bat before!" Babs said to Apple Bloom eagerly.

Then something unexpected happened. A strawberry fruit bat spied an Apple in Applesauces's hat. He licked his lips, and dove. Along with the other fruit bats.

"Ahh!" Applesauce ducked and everypony ducked continuously as the bats flew down after the fruit. The stallions pulling the cart turned to avoid the bats and headed for the barnhouse...

"Everypony!" Apple Bloom said. "Jump out!"

Big Macintosh grabbed Harry in his mouth by the scruff of his neck and jumped off with the rest.

The barnhouse crashed down when the cart hit it. Applejack hid her face in her hat.

"Ruined." Applejack said later. "Everything is ruined. I'm sorry granny."

"Oh its all right child." Granny put a hoof on Applejack's shoulder.

"But its not all right. The barnhouse, and all my plans for the perfect family reunion are completely destroyed!"

"Maybe that's a good thing." Apple Bloom suggested.

"How can that possibly be a good thing!" Applejack snapped.

"Applejack you had us caught up in the doing we didn't have time to enjoy the company of who we was doing it with." Granny Smith explained to her oldest grandaughter.

"Really?"

Various ponies in the family uttered agreeings including Braeburn.

"Tcht. Oh Granny Smith, here you put me in charge of making great memories and the only thing ponies will remember, is that this was the worst Reunion we've ever had."

"Come on Applejack. Everypony's still here ain't they? And we still got plenty of time to make good memories. You just gotta give ponies time to make 'em." Granny Smith elbowed her good naturedly.

"The Family Photo!" Applejack said eagerly. "Guess we can't take it in front of the barn this year." Then she got an idea. "Unless...Everypony! I got one more activity!"

"Applejack..." Granny Smith warned.

"Trust me Granny. This time everypony's gonna remember this for all the right reasons."

Tap tap tap tap. Music started playing. "Wooohoo!" Applejack shouted eagerly.

"Raise this barn, raise this barn! Together we can raise this bar 4." Braeburn, the orange maned Stallion mentioned in the first Applejack memory and two mares perked up. Then Applejack twirled Granny Smith. Time moved to reveal Granny in a hard hat working together with family. "Up up up, tiwrl them beams. Hammer those joints, work in teams. Turn around quick by the right elbow. Grab a new partner here we go." Big Macintosh with two other large stallions and Braeburn nosed some beams up to be tied to the Barnhouse. The orange maned stallion grabbed some nails tossed to him. Harry and Apple Bloom walked towards Apple Rose and big Macintosh respectively and danced together.

"Yeah!" The Apple Family cheered. A nice view showed all Apples dancing with partners.

"Come on Apple Family! Let's get to it! Wooohooo!"

"Raise this barn, raise this barn. 1 2 3 4." Braeburn let Harry hold on to his neck while grabbing the rope with his muzzle as Braeburn pulled back. "Together we can raise this barn! 1 2 3 4!" Harry let go first, then the other Stallions. "Finish the frame, recycling wood, working hard yer doing good." A pig and rooster where seen dancing as well. "Turn around quick by the right elbow, grab a new partner here we go!" Braeburn and a red coated female bowed to each other before starting to saw wood. "YEAH!" The red coated female started backing up showing off her flank in an old timey corset dress.

"Raise this barn, raise this barn!" Apple jack sang as wood was hauled into the air behind her. " together we can raise this barn! 1 2 3 4!"

"Come on Apples! Get'r done!" She called up to stallions working on the actual barn house and not just cutting wood. The Apple stallions all waved.

"Look at us we're family." Apple Bloom sang as she and Babs pushed a sander back and forth. "Working together thankfully!" Applejack sang in relief. "We Apples we are proud to say, stick together the pony way!" The sisters sang the last part together.

"Bow to yer partner, circle to the right." The same orange maned stallion from earlier bowed to a mare before rearing up on hind legs and circling. "Get down if your scared of heights." Applejack sang to a stallion hanging on to a high beam for dear life before he swung upside down. "Forward back and twirl around this barn's gonna be the best in town." Apple Song spun Granny Smith around and dipped her.

"Yeehaw! Atta girl!" Applejack said to the two while Apple Song looked at her funny.

"All right!" Harry said riding a bull carrying a cart of supplies. "Let's get to it!"

Raise this barn, raise this barn! Together we can raise this barn! 1 2 3 4! Applejack, Harry and Granny Smith appeared carrying paint. Paint buckets where plopped down in front of groups. The groups got brushes in their muzzles.

"Take yer brushes Young and old! Together paint it bright and bold! Turn around quick by the right elbow! Grab a new partner here we go!" Everypony started painting the new and improved barnhouse. And soon it was as if nothing had happened but a new paint job.

We raised this barn we raised this barn. Yes we did. Together we sure raised this barn. Yes we did. Being together counts the most! We all came here from coast to coast. All we need to strive to be..is part of the Apple Family! Everypony admired their work as they stood around just being a family.

Applejack set the timer on the camera and quickly rushed over. She made it just in time. Harry stood in between Big Macintosh and Granny Smith in this years photo. "Yeah!"

Soon it was almost time to leave. Harry said goodbye to his new favorite cousin his own age and the two did their hoof shake as he left with his own family. Granny Smite spooked Applesauce so her teeth flew out of her mouth into Apple Rose's hooves. The 3 grandmothers all laughed.

"I can't wait for the next Reunion." Apple Bloom said eagerly.

"Me neither." Babs agreed.

"I mean, we obviously have to get together before then!"

"Obviously."

"Well ya did it Applejack. Ya put on a Reunion everypony will remember." Granny Smith said to Applejack who was washing various plates and dishes and silverware.

"Just had a couple minor hiccups along the way." Applejack agreed.

"Yeah." Granny Smith chuckled. "Just a couple." She winked.

That night,

"Ho ho that's a good one." Granny Smith chuckled. Apple Bloom and Harry giggled too.

Dear Princess Celestia,

The small family was looking a photos of the day. Including one of Harry and his new friend holding up a trophy Harry won for winning the Fritter Eating Contest. He had one heck of a sweet tooth. Apple Bloom and Babs hanging out, Applejack hugging Braeburn with one leg while he had a hammer in his mouth.

Today I learned a great lesson about Family. Which if ya think about it, is really the first group of friends you ever make! Turns out, that when your with folks you care about. you don't have to do much to make the time memorable!

Granny Smith and Apple Bloom giggled at a picture of Harry with Braeburn's hat over his head engulfing it. Braeburn next to him grinning.

The simplest of activities can take on a whole lot of meaning! And you'll find that you'll remember the who, long after you've forgotten the what.

There was a picture of Granny Smith and Apple Song, a picture of Apple Bloom, Harry and Big Macintosh and finally, a picture of Applejack, Granny Smith, Apple Rose and Applesauce with the finished quilt.

Your humble subject,

Applejack.

Harry fluttered down from the air where he was hovering next to his mother and cuddled up to her as the family continued to look at photos.

Outside, two comets flew overhead, with two, slightly smaller ones following them...

End of Apple Family Reunion.

To Be Continued...

Next! Royal Canterlot Wedding! Harry is finally going to meet his cousin Cadance! But why is she acting this way? This is the way Twilight described his cousin...And why is her magic green?

A/N: Sorry for the long wait. I had a family emergency to take care of and I lost my muse for a while but its back!

btw, the endings of Canterlot Wedding and Crystal Empire are already written! This book will end with Crystal Empire. The next book will start the Hogwarts Years! Years 1-3!

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