Twilight had been up in her room for about an hour, writing down everything the princess had told her into a scroll. She smiled with her work and put down her quill. She left out the paper to dry the ink, and went downstairs.

"So...finally returning from your studies." Came a voice, cold and grizzled. Turning with a Start, AJ took his place from the wall and walked over to her. Twilight gulped and cowered a bit under the massive colt.

"Yes, and I am a bit more sympathetic to what happened to you now. I had some time to think about this." She smiled and offered out a hoof, "I'm sorry about what I said earlier."

AJ smiled back and took her small hoof in his hand, "Yep, s'not a problem at all. Jus' lookin' forward to gettin' some a' that grub you told the other pony to go make, I'm starvin'! Hey wait...where in the hay is Bubbles?"

Traveling around town Bubble Berry was enjoying the time, bouncing around on rooftops with his other self. "Haha! Pinkie Pie right?" He called out to the pink mare bounding next to him.

"Yeah! Bubble Berry, you and I are gonna be the bestest of best friends!" She smiled laughing a bit at the colt so much like her.

Bubble Berry stopped and gasped looking at Pinkie, "What if we were better than Bestest Best friends? What if we were Bester Bestest Friends!?" He asked getting into Pinkie's face.

Pinkie Pie's face lit up, "Ohmaigosh! Is there such a thing as Bester Bestest Friends?"

Bubble Berry laughed and continued his hopping, "There is now! C'mon Bester Bestest Friend!"

With a squeal she jumped forward and hugged onto Bubble Berry as the two tumbled down from the roof landing onto the street in a mess of confetti, giggles, and happiness. Pinkie Pie tickled his nose a bit, "Definitely my Bester Bestest friend!"

Meanwhile at the farm, Applejack was making up all sorts of deserts for the other six ponies. Meanwhile, Macintosh was busy working the fields. The yoke pulled at his neck as he strained forward sweat dripping off of his heavy set body. He wiped some of it off and spit some of the saliva he had out into the fields. A good bit of moisture for the plants.

He chewed a bit more on his piece of wheat, then cracked his neck a few times before going back to work.

The pair of bubbly ponies bounded out of Ponyville and started to go a different direction. They passed along the edge of the Everfree forest, both satisfied with the others company as they kept reinventing ways to have fun. The newest way was to see who could scare the other the most.

Pinkie Pie laughed, "I'm not having fun scaring each other, how about we tell stories. Okay, this time me and the girls had to save all of Canterlot from an army of-"

Bubble Berry gasped as he saw something lurking in the forest. Something he was all too familiar with. "CHANGELINGS!" He screamed at the top of his lungs as he ran from the sets of green eyes that all started at him.

Pinkie Pie gasped, "How did you know?"

Bubble Berry stopped in front of her and with a buck of his head she landed on him, facing the now small army of changelings that were chasing them. Pinkie let out a scream as she turned and hugged tightly onto Bubble Berry.

Bubble took over, heading straight to the first place he could see, a large red barn in the distance.

Big Macintosh stopped. He listened to the small voice on the air, and the single word that was being screamed out again, and again. "HEEEELP!" Big Macintosh spurred himself into action. He couldn't ignore any cry for help, especially since he could see what kind of trouble the voice was in.

A pair of pink ponies, being chased by a small swarm of what appeared to be pony bugs. With a snort he removed the plow from his yoke and started to dash forward, his hooves digging into the mud as he sprinted up towards Bubble Berry, and Pinkie Pie.

Pinkie Pie looked down and saw that they were nearing Applejack's farm. She also saw another thing, a massive red pony charging straight for them, snorting steam and pressing forward faster than she had ever seen him move,

"Big Macintosh!" She exclaimed just as he passed her.

Big Mac noted his name being called out just as he stopped in front of the Changeling swarm. The black creatures stopped as well, their shiny carapaces reflecting the bright light of the sun. Big Mac raised his voice, "Now...y'all ain't tryna hurt them ponies are yah?"

The creatures hissed in response and one tried rushing forward. With a single buck of his powerful back legs he sent the changeling flying back into its allies.

"Eeyup, time for me to show y'all why they called me Big Boss Macintosh when I went to Manehattan..." Big Mac started to run forward, diving hoof first into the ball of changelings, he was met with a delicious crunch as his massive weight completely crushing one of the changelings into a black and green jelly underneath him.

It had been years since Macintosh had allowed himself to cut loose and really let go on someone or something. Figures he would be doing it now to save some of his friends.

Macintosh neighed and leaped forward, kicking some of the changelings away. Their faces were left with massive hoof prints and open cuts as he started to get into a "friendly little tussle" with the things. Big Macintosh grabbed a pair by the horns and pulled them into one another.

The changelings screamed as they impaled each other, chitin separated and the horns drove straight into their nerve bundles that served as brains. The two changelings fell over, each twitching due to They were joined by another changeling as Big Macintosh lifted one of the changelings up above his head, jumped, and slammed the thing headfirst into the ground.

Bone snapped, nerves ripped themselves apart, and chitin exploded. Big Macintosh snorted and lifted himself from the ground. In under 20 seconds he had killed four changelings. The others shrieked at the massive pony, but with a whinny and a stand on his hind legs they started to back off.

They did not want to fight with this pony after seeing what had just happened. Macintosh snorted once and started walking back to the farm, still dripping with green blood.

Pinkie Pie and Bubble Berry related there story to Applejack, who at the first thought rushed outside. To her surprise Big Mac was already walking forward, covered in bright green blood, a smile on his face and a vicious look in his eyes.

"What in Sam Hill were you thinking Big Mac? You coulda gotten hurt you coulda-" Big Mac shut his sister up with a hug, invariably spreading some of the gore onto her, and he neighed gently.

"A'hm all right, now let me go wash up sis. You might wanna do the same..."

Applejack looked down and noticed some of the green viscus blood stuck to her fur. "Aww horsefeathers! You got me all covered in goop!"

Mac gave a rumbling laugh just as he started to walk down to the creek, calling out one thing in his all too charismatic manner... "EEYUP!"