Equestrian Heroes

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Naruto x Harem

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Story Start

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The past few weeks had been an utter delight. Winter activities, celebrations, and spending time with loved ones. The winter season had saw to it that much of the raiding and such slowed down. Only the foolish and greedy pressed themselves during the season.

The A few weeks into the New Years it was time for Winter to leave Ponyville. It was Winter Wrap-up time.

Nearing the center of town, he spotted a large crowd of ponies already gathered there, as the Mayor took her place upon the wooden stage to make her address. Everypony was wearing the designated vests of the teams, assigning them their roles. Naruto was wearing a tan vest signifying he was in the same grouping as Rarity and Fluttershy.

The Mayor gave a bolstering speech, to do even better this year than last year and to make this the 'best Winter Wrap Up ever,' which made everypony cheer. All the while, Twilight was bouncing up and down like a filly, trying to get somepony's attention.

Trying to hold in a laugh, Naruto marveled at how excited she was about this. He was too, but she really wanted to go that extra mile in whatever way she could. Spike was just watching tiredly, his eyelids drooping.

A none magical winter wrap-up would indeed be a first for her though so it was probably going to prove to be an interesting experience.

After the Mayor had finished, the crowds dispersed to join their respective team leaders.

Naruto and Rarity had finished setting up the table and got out the remainder of the supplies for bird nests. There was some left for a few nests so that meant Naruto would have to leave to Sweet Apple Acres to get more.

"Rarity, please tell me there's something, anything I can help you two with." After her disastrous attempt at helping the weather team she figured she would have better luck with animals.

Rarity gave a smile. "Well, how would you like to help create Ponyville's finest birds' nests?"

"Birds' nests?"

"Why yes." She gestured to all of the materials around her, and to a completed nest. "When the weather team guides the birds back north for the spring, they'll need a place to live and lay their eggs."

"Well since you're helping Twilight I'll go and get the rest of the supplies." He said as he and Rarity turned to each other for a brief kiss. "Back in a bit." He said as he walked around the table. "See you in a bit Twi." He said as Twilight replied with a semi-wave.

"Where do I begin?"

Spike stood back and watched, as Twilight was given the materials to get started. She organized them nicely and set to work, Rarity providing direction where she could. However, fine craftsmanship was not one of Twilight's virtues, so that the finished result wasn't exactly... well... neat...

There! It looks just like... yours." Her face fell when she saw hers and Rarity's were in no way alike. "Oh my..."

"Oh, Spa-ha-hike, it's not so bad, ah, maybe birds can use it as a..." Rarity tried to find the right word while also doing her best not to hurt Twilight's feelings.

"An outhouse?" Spike asked in deadpan.

"Spike!" Rarity snapped before re-addressing Twilight. "It's just fine. It's just a little rough around the edges. Let me lend you a hoof. Let's just untie this ribbon, and let me take out these sticks here, we'll shave this…"

Twilight sulked as Rarity continued to "correct" her mistake, Spike whispering, "I think we lost her."

Naruto had placed another bale of hay together and sat it down next to the wagon. To stay true to the spirit of the holiday he found himself having to transport the materials by wagon.

"Keep pushin', Caramel!"

Applejack stood in the middle of the fields where her team was busy clearing away snow so they could get started planting.

"Tha's it, bumpkin! Ah know it's hard work y'all are doin' great! Yee-haw!"

As he began heading for the next hay bale he heard the sound of Twilight's voice. Seeing her and Spike approach Applejack he concluded that making nests with Rarity didn't turn out so well.

Well helping Applejack with her part of Winter wrap-up shouldn't prove that much of an issue so he continued back to what he was doing.

Soon an unexpected accident occurred as the snow plow Twilight was using had come to life. It had happened so fast that by the time he was on the scene Twilight had crashed into o Applejack, who got rolled up into the snowball.

"What's goin' on he-" Applejack demanded before gasping as she was rolling in the snowball. "You used magic, didn't you?!"

Before Twilight could answer, they crashed into a high ledge, bringing the snowplow to a stop. But a rumbling above them made them gasp as the snow on top of the ledge came crashing down and on into an avalanche.

As all the snowplowing ponies started to complain, Twilight and Applejack popped their heads out of the snow, Applejack giving her the stink-eye as she scolded, "Twilight! Ah cain't believe it, you used magic! Tha' is not how we get things `round here done, Twilight, especially not on mah farm!"

Twilight had yet again screwed up and now one of her friends was angry at her. The sense of frustration had grown to the point she was actually starting to tear up. With that Twilight took off in full sprint breaking out into sobs, upset and in shame.

The Apple farmer was stunned by what just happened.

"Applejack! What the hell!" Naruto practically roared at her. "That wasn't necessary."

Applejack stood her ground, despite wanting to winch. This was the first time in a while that Naruto had displayed such anger at her. "H-Hey don't treat me like ah'm the bad guy. She's the one that…" She was cut off mid-sentence.

"And that gives you the right to snap at her and send our friend, your friend running off in tears? You didn't see how much she was looking forward to help. How excited she was. Yes, Twilight using magic was wrong, but it was a mistake. You know how fragile and fearful she is when it comes to losing her friendships with us. She's not you AJ. She was raised differently. I know holding true to tradition is important to you, but its not fair to hold and judge somepony else to that kind of standard. You owe her an apology."

Applejack let out a sigh. She wanted to be stubborn about the issue, but the image of Twilight crying replayed in her head already made the guilt she felt heavier. "Alright, ya right. Ah could have handled it better. When we finish the wrap-up ah'll apologize."

Naruto nodded, happy that Applejack wouldn't fight with him on this. Finally finish loading up the cart he made his way back to Rarity who was in the midst of a breakdown. Dramatically crying about how she couldn't fix the bird nest.

Suffice to say this was the most confused he had been in years.

And the disaster just kept on continuing.

"Rainbow Dash, y'all on the weather team need ta melt the rest of the snow here on the ground and the trees, pronto," Applejack was saying.

"Got it!" She was about to fly off when-

"My poor little animals' homes will get flooded if the snow melts too fast," Fluttershy warned.

"Ah'm tellin' ya Rainbow, ya gotta melt that snow now."

"No, you simply must wait," Fluttershy cried.

"Okay..." Rainbow and her team were starting to look confused. Pretty soon, it descended into chaos

"Go."

"Stop."

"Go."

"Stop."

"GO!"

"STOP!"

"Ugh! Make up your minds!" She yelled in frustration.

"Oh! What in Equestria are all you arguing about?" The Mayor had realized what was going on, and looked furious. "This sort of silliness is why we've been disorganized every year and late for organizing our seasons every year."

Naruto had thought last year was just a really bad fluke. Turns out that this seemed to be a yearly thing. The full extent of the disaster hit them. The ice chunks were too big, He and Rarity was behind on nest-making, the animal team was going too slowly, the plant team needed to get their seeds in the ground, somepony had lost their seeds, a pegasus pony had gone the wrong direction. It was close to sundown, at this rate winter would be late again.

Setting his mind to work, Naruto began to think, drowning out the arguing ponies around him. It was complete and utter chaos, they needed organization, efficiency, direction.

There was only one pony fit for the job. With that he took in a flurry of snowflakes. A few minutes later he had returned with Twilight.

"Hey Mayor, I got a solution to the problem." Naruto bellowed over the noisy members of town. Their attention was drawn in. "If we're going to hurry up and get done on time then you all need to hush, stop arguing, and listen." He turned to Twilight. "The floor is yours Twi."

"Thank you, Naruto," she said, as he took his place by her side. "Look I know I haven't been the most helpful pony today, but if there is one thing I know its organization."

With her in charge, the tasks went ahead a lot more smoothly. Rarity and Naruto were able to catch up on the nests, with assistance from everypony else on the animal team, the ice scorers were able to cut the ice into much more manageable chunks for be melted when the sun came up and the snow cleaners worked in sync with the seed planters, ensuring quicker planting of their food.

They also implemented a much more efficient waking system, whereby several bells could be rung at once to wake up multiple critters at the same time.

Then the weather team was signaled to move the clouds.

They did this in seconds, even managing to sweep away some more snow in a wind cyclone they created, allowing the sun to stream down over Ponyville.

By the time the rest of the weather team returned with the southern birds, everything was ready. The rivers were flowing again, animals were at play, the bird nests had been completed and everything that was warm and green had returned to the land. They had done it. Spring was on time.

"I can't believe it. Spring is here! On time! And we have you to thank for it," The Mayor said proudly. "If it weren't for your organizing skills we would still be arguing."

"It was a team effort," Twilight reminded them.

"And since you helped every team, we have an official vest for you. We give you the title, "All-Team Organizer!"" A vest with every team color was presented to her by Rarity, as she glowed with pride.

"Gosh, I don't even know what to say. Thank you everypony."

"And hereby I declare that winter is... wrapped up on time!" The townsponies cheered at the declaration.

"Spike's sure gonna be in for a hog-sized surprise when that last piece a' ice melts," Applejack pointed out, seeing him asleep in the middle of a lake, sparking more laughter.

When the crowd dispersed, it was just Applejack and Twilight left.

"Twilight!"

Twilight began to move towards her friend, but stopped when she saw that the orange earth pony had a troubled look on her face. So instead, she stopped and waited for Applejack to arrive before speaking to her.

"Applejack? What's wrong?"

Applejack looked quite uncomfortable, and opened her mouth several times, but closed it soon afterwards. A sigh escaped the lips of the apple farmer. "Look Twi, ah, look ah want to apology for earlier."

Twilight was surprised. "For what?"

For a moment Applejack averted her eyes before resuming eye contact.

"For sayin what ah did earlier today."

"Applejack...it's fine. I was the one who was wrong." Considered how she flummoxed multiple times and caused disasters that did not help the already disorganized effort she didn't feel the apology was necessary.

"It AIN'T okay, Twi! You were tryin' to help and all ah did was snap at ya and made you feel terrible about it."

Twilight shook her head. "You wouldn't have done that if I stuck with traditions. I was just so determined to help that nothing else mattered to me. I just didn't want to be useless."

"I let mah anger you for doing somethin' outside of tradition blind me to fact it was an accident and that ah shouldn't have acted out of proportion. Considerin' you saved our hides with your organization skills you've proven just how valuable you are to this town being just the way you are. Look, can we just, put all of this behind us?"

Those words caused Twilight's ears to perk up a bit as she slowly looked up to her friend, who was now wearing a big smile on her face.

Before she finished, Applejack raised a hand, offering it to Twilight.

"We good?"

Twilight stared at the offered hand, and after a few moments, she happily took the hand. "Of course." The two friends made their way back to town, both feeling relieved and happier.

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