A/N: I WAS going to do Apple Family Reunion, but I thought I should introduce Braeburn before that. As well as start Harry's friendship with Little Strongheart. Please Leave A Review

Btw, My fave MLP: FIM episodes are

1. Apple Family Reunion

2. Royal Canterlot Wedding 1 & 2

3. Return of Harmony 1 & 2 (I love Discord)

4: Over A Barrell (Braeburn's my second favorite Apple family Stallioin. My first favorite Apple stallion is Big Macintosh)

5. Best Night Ever (I like the song Best Night Ever)

6. Keep Calm And Flutter On (Discord's good now YAY!)

End of extra long A/N...

Summary: Harry and his mother Applejack are taking a trip to the new western settlement of Appleoosa. They bring with them their friends, and a tree for their relatives apple orchard. But conflict with a tribe of buffallo might ruin this fun trip...

Chapter 6: Over A Barrell

" An' that's when the yellow birdie thought to herself, 'Hmm. My favorite little tree isn't such a little tree anymore.' So she sang her song, big an' strong. An' they all lived happily ever after. The...End."

"Applejack!" Applejack snapped the storybook shut and saw Rarity in the car as well. "Were you reading a bed time story to an...apple tree? Harry I could understand because he's still a foal, but a tree?"

Applejack got a bit nervous. "Heh...uh...Well ya know, bein' replanted in a whole new place is very upsettin' for a tree...an' Bloomberg here is one of my favorites." She started petting "Bloomberg" as if the tree where a pet and praising it.

"No fair Applejack! You've got a luxurious, private sleeper car for a tree, while I am crowded and cramped in the same car with all the other ponies. How am I supposed to get my beauty sleep?!"

Applejack put a blanket spotted with apples over Bloomberg. "But Bloomberg's the whole reason we're makin' this trrp! He needs his rest so we can give him as a gift to my relatives in Appleloosa."

Rarity Hmmphed. "You talk about it as if its your baby or something." Indeed, Applejack hadn't talked like this since Harry was a baby.

"Who you callin' a baby?" Applejack snapped at her friend. "Bloomberg's no baby!" She then started cooing at the apple tree. "Don't wet widdle Rarity make you all saddy-waddy. Bloomberg's a big and strong apple tree. Yes, he is. A-coochie-coochie-coo-coo-coo!

Later that night, their friends where too excited to sleep.

"For crying out loud in the morning!" Rarity sighed and put a pillow over her other ear.

"I can't wait!" Fluttershy said excitedly.

"Yeah, yeah!" Rainbow Dash agreed excitedly.

Harry groaned and turned his head up from his bed. "Do you guys miind? I was up early practicing fire spells with Spike helping him fire roast those snacks your all eating. I'M POOPED!"

"Uh, speaking of which, some of these popcorn kernels didn't get popped." Rainbow Dash said to the colt.

Harry sighed. "Fine." He charged his magic in his horn which released black colored flames at the popcorn leaving them burned and inedible and Rainbow Dash looking a bit disappointed. "Goodnight." Harry said grumpily as he turned over pulling his blanket back over on himself.

Twilight chuckled nervously. "Maybe its time we all got a little shut-eye. We've got a big day ahead of us tomorrow."

Harry felt relieved when everyone said goodnight. Then mentally growled when Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie started talking again. Something about Fluttershy being a tree. Then Twilight joined and asked Rainbow Dash if she said Fluttershy was a tree.

"I'd like to be a tree." Fluttershy joined in the conversation.

"Oh for Pete's sake!" Harry shouted and huffed as he walked to the private car and slammed the door after saying "Goodnight!"

"Well that was huffy." Twilight said semi amused.

"Huffy the magic dragon." Flutershy said remembering the fire.

All the mares except Rarity giggled again. "WILL YOU ALL BE QUIET NOW PLEASE?!" Rarity demandedin her mud pack and cucumbers which scared the other mares into finally being quiet.

"THANK YOU!"

Harry trotted over to the bed and sleepily crawled into it with the tree. "Sorry Bloomberg. I tend to snore a bit. Drives Applebloom crazy sometimes. He e yawned and turned over with his back toward the tree. "Goodnight." He said to the tree as he started snoring softly.

The next morning the mares decided to let their youngest Element sleep in since he was grumpy yesterday. Then all of a sudden...

"Who get's what now? Huh?" Rainbow Dash jerked awake as she fell out of bed after their car was hit by buffalo.

"Ooh. A buffalo stampede!" Twilight said excitedly as they all gathered around a window.

"I just love their accessories." Rarity said as she admired the feathers on the one of each buffalo's ears. Females had two, males had two big ones with a small feather in between.

One of the buffalo came up to the earth pony in the lead of the pony's pulling the train. And rammed him from the side. The brown coated stallioin headbutted him and they sped up after another rammed the car the mane 6 where in.

The mares all screamed in fear as they where tossed about the car. Harry on the other hoof, was still fast asleep as the bed he was sharing with Bloomberg slid about the private car.

Suddenly, one of the females jumped on top of a male and stood perfectly still.

"Ooo neato! Now their doing tricks!" Pinkie said as the fourth and final buffalo, a smaller tan buffalo female stood on top. "O oh oh! Now do a backflip!" Suddenly the youngest female jumped onto the train and headed in the direction of the private car. "Or just jump."

"Something tells me this ISN'T a circus act." Rainbow Dash said before flying out the car and into the air. "Hey there. Where ya going in such a hurry?" She said to the young buffalo female woh gasped. She merely ran at Dash who flew up to avoid her. She flew along the train after her. "Wow. Your pretty quick for someone so...bulky. No offense." She flew up and landed in front of the buffalo. "I just wanna know-" She flew up again as the young female was prepared to run over her. "HEY!" Rainbow Dash flew ahead of her again. "I'm talking to y-"

The young female suddenly hurled herself into the air doing some magnificent somersaults.

"Woah." Rainbow Dash said in an impressed tone. She ran after the younger female as she figured out where she was headed. Bloomberg's car. But just before the private car, she jumped down making Dash distracted. "Hu-Ooof!" She flew smack into a post. The buffalo girl looked out at her from the side and blew her a raspberry. Then, she unhooked the car from the train with her mouth and whistled for her comrades to leave. The ponies pulling the train where curious as to why they where leaving, but sped up a bit in case they came back.

The Elements all ran to the back car. Shocked to see the private car gone.

"They got Bloomberg!" Twilight said in shock.

Suddenly Harry's scared face appeared in the window. "HELP!" He shouted. Terrified of what these buffalo might do to an alicorn.

"And my son!" Applejack said a terrified tone.

Rainbow Dash shook her head and saw the private car being herded the opposite direction by the buffalo herd with the young female on top of it.

"MOMMA!" She heard Harry's terrified voice from the car.

"Foal Napping Harry! I'll show her!" Rainbow Dash growled in anger and flew off to follow the herd.

The train arrived in Appleloosa at about 2 in the afternoon. The mares of the Elements that where on the train still all hurried off. They where greeted by an eager looking, pale yellow earth pony stallion.

"Howdy there. Welcome to A-a-a-ppeloosa!" The stallion said as he raised his front legs in eagerness.

:"Listen Cousin Braeburn, we got a big problem he-" Applejack started.

"Cousin Applejack where are your manners? You have yet to introduce me to your compadres!"

"Somethin' terrible happened!" Applejack tried to get her cousin to listen.

"Terrible is right. Your train arrived seven minutes late. That gives you seven minutes less to enjoy all the delights and pleasures of A-a-appleloosa!" He took them an a tour of the settlement. "Boggles the mind that we settler ponies built all this in just the past year don't it?" He asked the worried mares. "We got all the finest comforts. Like horsedrawn carriages." He pointed over to a carriage that was being pulled by a dark colored pony in a cowboy hat.

"Okay, your turn now." He said to the blue colored pony who was wearing a large sombrero.

"Aww, we just switched."

"And horse drawn, horsedrawn carriages." Braeburn pointed over to ponies drawing scenes from the town.

Meanwhile...

Harry was terrified. The buffalo where slowing down now. They would come inside any moment. He got in front of Bloomberg and...tried to look formidable.

The door of the car kicked in. And a buffalo came inside. "Huh?" He said in confusion. "What are you doing in here?"

"Your not getting Bloomberg!" Harry snarled at the buffalo with a glare of death.

"Just give us the tree and you won't be harmed." Another buffalo male said as he joined his comrade.

Harry merely glared again and concentrated on his horn. Soon it sparked to life. The black electricity of his Chidori charging power prepared to kill if necessary.

"Chidori." He growled. He stomped one hoof prepared to charge.

"What is going on here?" A deep voice demanded. "Why isn't the tree out of the car yet?" A buffalo older and larger than the two in front of Harry squeezed past them into the car. Harry layed his ears back and his Chidori died down.

He gulped timidly. The Element of Courage he may be, he still got scared of buffalo far older and stronger than he was.

"I don't care who you are." He snarled up to the buffalo wearing a full head dress of feathers. He must be the leader. He thought. "I'm not letting you hurt a defenseless tree!"

Something familiar about him. The leader buffalo thought. "Are you per chance related to Princess Celestia?" The male asked the young colt.

"What do you want from Grandma?" Harry snarled. "Ransom or something?"

"We have no use for bits." The leader waved his hoof. "Bring him back to the camp." He ordered the two in the car.

"Yes Chief Thunderhooves." The male on the left said. "Come on you."

"Wait! How do you-" Harry blacked out as they knocked him unconcious.

Back in Appleloosa...

"Uh...yes cuz?" Braeburn asked after Applejack hollered his name loudly.

"We have a huge problem. Some of our friends are missin'! MY SON is missing!"

"You have a son?" Braeburn asked with intrest. "Whose the lucky stallion?"

"Not...important..." Applejack hissed at him.

"A stampede of buffalo." Fluttershy told Braeburn at which his eye started twitching.

"They took Harry!" Rarity said in worry.

"Rainbow Dash went after them!" Twilight added.

"We can't find Pinkie Pie." Fluttershy said.

"And we had a tree we where gonna bring for your orchard, but the buffalo's took it. Along with my son!"

"Did you say...buffalo?" Braeburn asked calmly.

"Yes." All the mares said. Braeburn sighed.

"Them buffalo. They want us settler ponies to take all the trees you see here off this land. We put all this hard work into feeding our town, our families, our foals! And now they want us to move this orchard? T'aint fair." He said sadly.

The four mares all looked out at the orchard sadly.

Rainbow Dash had followed the herd to the area she was hiding. "I'll show that bufallo. No one tricks Rainbow Dash and gets away with it!" She winced as her face twinged in pain.

"BOO!" Pinkie Pie surprised Rainbow Dash so much that she flew into the air and landed on her back in fright.

"Pinkie Pie!" She shouted.

"Whoops! Ya caught me! Looks like I messed with you and didn't get away with it either. Your good!"

"Pinkie Pie! I'm trying to save Harry!"

"Oh my gosh so am I!" Pinkie said eagerly.

"AND THE MORE OF US THERE ARE OUT HERE THE ARE BETTER CHANCES OF US GETTING-" She stopped as angry buffalo surrounded them. "Caught." She said nervously. "Run Pinkie." She said as she got ready to fight. "I'll hold them off. Save yourself!"

The buffalo started charging when a familiar young voice shouted "STOP!"

The buffalo all suddenly stopped and a path was parted between them. Through the dust Rainbow Dash and Pinkie could see a young pony. "Dash, Pinkie. Hi!" Harry said eagerly with a headband on his head like the buffalo where wearing.

"Harry?" Rainbow Dash asked in confusion. Wondering why he was wearing feathers too.

"Its okay. I know those mares. Their cool." Harry said to the tan buffalo on his right.

"If you say so Harry." The young male said as he held up his hoof and Harry clopped it with his own. "Catch ya later bro." The male said as the buffalo that surrounded them ran off.

Later that night, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie sat with Harry at a fire.

"Turns out they took me by mistake. They feel really bad about it." Harry told the older mares. "Fortunately for me, the Chief and Grandma are old friends."

"Why do you have the feathers?" Pinkie asked eagerly after coming up from her bowl of mashed cactus.

"The Chief was so moved by my compassion for all living things, he let me join their tribe." Harry said eagerly after slurping his cactus bowl clean. "I even have my own tribal name. Little Braveheart!" The same young buffalo female from earlier came up to Harry with a bowl of water. "And this is my new friend Little Strongheart."

"You!" Rainbow Dash growled.

"You!" Little Bravehert gasped.

"That's it. Let's bail!" Rainbow Dash said preparing to leave.

"Please accept my apologies for what happened on the train." Little Strongheart pleaded. "We didn't want anybody to be hurt."

"Yeah right." Rainbow Dash scoffed the apology.

"We only wanted the tree. Those settler ponies have overtaken the land and planted an apple orchard all over it. Because of their thoughtlessness we can no longer run over our traditional stampeding grounds.

"Huh?" Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie looked a bit confused.

"I think its time they met Chief Thunderhooves." Harry said to Little Strongheart who nodded in agreement.

"Our herd has stampeded over this land for many generations." Chief Thunderhooves began his tale to Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie. "My father stampeded over these grounds. And his father before him. And his father before him." And his father before him. And his father-"

"I think they get the idea chief." Little Strongheart said stopping the leader of her herd from an infinite loop.

"Hmmph." Chief Thunderhooves grunted. "It is a sacred tradition to run the path every year. But this year, these...settler ponies...these, " Thunderhooves started snorting angrily, "Appleloosans!" He was starting to get furious before Little Strongheart calmed him down.

"They planted the apple treess all over it without our permission."

"Well that's not very nice. Right Rainbow Dash?" Pinkie Pie asked her flying friend.

"Hmph." Was Rainbow Dash's reply.

"The ponies refuse to move their trees. Because of this we're stuck here, and it isn't fair!"

Harry turned to his fellow Element of Harmony. "See Rainbow Dash? They had a good reason to take B-"

"Huh-ah, I'll say they had a good reason!" Rainbow Dash shouted startling all the buffalo. Come on! We have some Settler ponies to talk too!"

The tribe cheered.

The next morning, Twilight, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity and Braeburn where preparing to rescue Harry, Rainbow Dash and Applejack.

"Ow!" Rarity groaned as Applejack pulled the strap of her bag roughly over her back. "Gently please!"

"Sorry Rarity. But my son and our friends are out there and we have ta' be ready for a long hike into buffalo territory if we're gonna save 'em!" She turned to the others. "Let's go!"

They didn't get very far till...

"Hi guys!" Pinkie Pie said eagerly.

"Pinkie!" Fluttershy flew into the mare and landed on top of her. "We're so glad your safe!"

"Momma!" Harry said as they rushed to greet their friends. Applejack embraced her son thankful he was safe.

"How did you escape the buffalo?" Twilight asked the Pegasi, Earth Pony and alicorn.

"We didn't." Pinkie said simply.

"We promised the buffalo a chance to talk." Rainbow Dash explained while Rarity marvled over Harry's new head band. ("Those feathers are exquisite!")

"Oh yeah, About what?" Applejack asked after releasing Harry who whistled and Little Strongheart waved over at them nervously before starting to draw with her hooves in the dirt.

"We brought my new friend Little Strongheart to explain why why the Appleloosan why they should move the apple orchard." Harry said eagerly to his mother who frowned. Harry was sidin' with the people who foal napped him?!

"That informaton would be quite helpful. Hey little guy, I'm yer cousin Braeburn. You must be the son Applejack mentioned. "He extended his hoof which Harry clopped in return. "Pleased to meet y-"

"That's weird." Applejack hissed which surprised and shocked Harry because normally his mother was quite civil. Unless ya pissed her off. " 'Cause my cousin Braeburn here wants to explain to the buffalo why they should let the apple trees stay."

"That would be a useful thing to-" Little Strongheart started before Harry interrupted her.

"The land is theirs! Grandma created this area from a huge empty forest so the buffalo could have a place to roam! She gave it to them over a thousand years ago! You planted the trees not knowing that." Harry explained thinking that would settle everything. "Now ya just gotta move 'em

"Well...eheh." Braeburn said nervously realizing just who Harry was talking about after seeing his wings and horn.

"Your family busted their rumps with the other settlers plantin these trees!" Applejack snapped at her infidelic son. "An' now yer sayin' they should bust their rumps again just 'cause the buffalo won't stampede someplace else?"

"Just plant the trees somewhere else!" Harry raised his voice to match his mothers so she could hear him. Apparently his message wasn't getting through.

"Where?!" Applejack demanded. "Its the only flatland around here!"

"The buffalo had it first!" Harry snarled at his mother. "MY GRANDMOTHER GAVE IT TO THEM!"

"The settler ponies need it to LIVE!" Applejack put her head against Harry's and they where at a stand off in anger.

"Applejack!" Rarity said in shock. She had never seen the two fight before in all the time Harry had lived in Ponyville

"THAT'S IT! YER GROUNDED MISTER!"

"MOMMA, I love you, but with all due respect; SHUT UP!" Harry shouted. Making all the ponies present and Little Strongheart herself gasp. He had never been like that with Applejack before. "Since I found out my Grandma was Priness Celestia, I've always considered myself an Apple first, and a Royal Family member second. But this time momma, I'm ashamed to be an Apple." He declared much to the shock of his mother. Braeburn understood though. Applejack was being a bit of an ass...

""QUIET!" Twilight shouted. Everypony and Little Strongheart looked over to her. "Look...both the settlers and the buffalo have good reasons to use this land. There must be somthing we can do!"

"I know!" Pinkie Pie said eagerly.

The next day, the buffalo and all the Appleloosans gathered at the theater built in the middle of the town square. Pinkie Pie sang a song about coming together and sharing the land. But unfortunately, she did it dressed up in harlot's clothing...Chief Thunderhooves and Sherrif Silver Star where very embarrassed.

"It appears that we have come to an agreement." Thunderhooves said to Harry who was next to Little Strongheart who sat next to the chief.

"We have." Silver Star agreed.

"That was the worst performance we have ever seen."

"Teh...Abso-tively!"

"The time for action...is upon us!" Thunderhooves declared to his tribe. The buffalo cheered in agreement. Harry and Little Strongheart looked at each other nervously.

"Our stampede will start at high noon tomorrow. And if the orchard is still there, we will flatten it. AND the entire town of Appleloosa!"

The Appleloosan's and the Elements all gasped in shock. "This is so not good." Twilight said in fear/

"But Chief!" Harry said to his grandmother's old friend.

"Little Braveheart." Thunderhooves spoke to Harry using his tribal name. "I respect you and your grandmother greatly. Your respect and compassion for all living things has moved my heart like nothing has in a very long time. But you must decide. Either your with us. Or THEM." He glared at the Appleloosans.

"An' we Appleloosan's say you'd better bring yer best, 'cause we'll be ready and waitin' !"

"But Sheriff!" Braeburn protested.

The rest of the day was spent getting ready for the stamped for the buffalos, buy stomping hooves, getting psyched, sharpening horns, etc. And for the Appleloosans,..baking pies...preparing defenses and bucking apples in case they actually tore down the orchard.

"I wan' my kin ta' have what they need to live, but a storm's brewin' here!" Applejack pleaded to her friends for help. "And I don't like the look of it.

"Hey, where's Harry?" Pinkie Pie asked. He wasn't with them in the room they where staying.

Where Harry had been pacing earlier, was an open window with the breeze blowing the curtains.

"He was just, oh that little!" Applejack snarled. "He betrayed us!"

"Applejack he's your son!" Twilight said in shock.

"Well, we'll know when tomorrow comes." Applejack said sadly. "One way, or the other." The mare finished as she stomped over to the door. "Come on ya'll, we gotta talk some sense into these ponies."

Later that night, sharpening of horns was still going on. Buffalo where also headbutting each other. Harry had made it to the buffalo's campsite.

"Isn't there anyway to stop this?" Harry pleaded with Little Strongheart.

"Unless the settlers remove those trees, I do not think so." The older than Harry female said sadly.

"Chief please." Harry said before bed time. "I know you don't want to do this. Grandma wouldn't want you to do this!"

"They have taken our land. What yould you have me do Little Braveheart? Sometimes a man has to choose between what is right, and what is easy." Thunderhooves said as he put two lines of war paint on his cheeks before pushing Harry the white bowl. Harry hung his head sadly and put a line of white paint on each cheek.

"Its never too late to think of SOMETHING." Rainbow Dash insisted as she watched Harry put the paint on with his hooves.

"At noon." Thunderhooves said to Harry sadly. "It will have already been too late..."

"I don't believe this." Applejack said in shock as she saw her son in warpaint standing with Chief Thunderhooves. "He's really with 'em. Mah own son!"

"Applejack what do you expect? You where being totally unreasonable with him!" Twilight said to her friend. "He has to protect the decrees his Celestia made!"

The clock suddenly started gonging. 1, 2, 3...

"Come on, come on...think think think think!" Rainbow Dash hit herself in the head lightly trying to think of something.

The Appleloosans prepared to fight. The Buffalo stomped their hooves. 9, 10, 11...12.

Harry gave one last pleading look to Thunderhooves. The old chief sighed sadly.

"He's not gonna do it." Rainbow Dash said in surprise.

"Oh thank you baby." Applejack said to her son though he couldn't hear her.

Suddenly...Pinkie Pie screwed the ceasefire up by singing. "You gotta share, you gotta care...Its the right thing to do."

This instantly angered the chief. "CHAAAAARGE!" He roared angrily. The Buffalo suddenly charged and shockingly, Harry went with them. Charging up his Chidori to destroy something with his anger that Pinkie Pie screwed everything up.

"Chidori!" He shouted after his fellow tribe members tore through the first line of defense and broke the flag pole with the Appleloosan flag with their stampeding. He charged at a hay pile with two stallions behind it that weren't Apple family members. He hit something hard and along with the hay, an anvil was sent flying into the air with a large crater in it with the two stallions who shouted in fear as they where thrown through a building window.

Harry clopped hooves with the same tan buffalo from earlier and the two ran opposite directions. "Chidori Sharp Spear!" He unleashed a new attack he had been working on and a spear of black lightning shot out of a normal Chidori and cut through several apple pies thrown at his fellow tribe members. Not knowing if they where poisoned or not, Harry avoided getting any pies thrown at him while he helped the tribe destroy Appleloosa.

One of the mares hiding up high jumped through a window onto a buffalo's back. The buffalo tried to buck her off. Another tan one had a pie thrown at him. He couldn't see since it hit his face. He ran into the clock tower and broke it. All the Appleloosans and Buffalo scattered. Chief Thunderhooves was now furious. He spied Sheriff Silver Star throwing pies behind hay bales. He narrowed his eyes and charged.

Sheriff Silver Star reached for another pie when he saw Thunderhooves coming. He had none left. So, he decided to do the honorable thing. Accept defeat. He stood up, put his hat to his chest, and waited for Thunderhooves to ram him.

But suddenly, a pie was thrown. And it hit Chief Thunderhooves...

"Noooooo!" Harry shouted causing everypony and buffalo to stop fighting. They all saw the chief not moving. One of the buffalo grabbed a mare nearby and sobbed into her shoulder. Applejack came over to her son and put a hoof on his shoulder while he cried into her neck.

Silver Star bowed his head thinking too that the worst had happened. All the fighting and destruction had stopped in fact...But then...

A drop of Apple Pie fell onto Thunderhooves' tongue. Suddenly he got up, and slurped his face clean of the delicious treat. "YUM!" He said eagerly. "I have an idea!"

Over the next few days, the buffalo and ponies worked together starting to build Appleloosa back up. "We will allow the apple orchard to stay as long as we can run through it and get a share of its fruit. And more of those delicious Apple pies."

When the buffalo stampeded through the next week, several Appleloosans gathered at the end of the orchard with bushels of apples, and apple pies to give to the herd. As tribute for letting them continue to use the land.

"Bloomberg." Applejack said to the now replanted tree. "This is yer special day! Momma's so proud of you!" she cooed as she tickled and petted the tree

Dear Grandma,

Friendship is a wonderous and powerful force of nature. Even the worst of enemies can become the best of friends. You need understanding and compromise. You've got to share. You've got to care-"

"HEY! That's what I said!" Pinkie Pie said as she read Harry's letter to his grandmother...

To Be Continued...

There's Over A Barrel for those who are still reading. As always...

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