This hut could be the hut of any sort of pony, but it just happens to belong to a zebra named Zecora. Like most zebras, Zecora had lots of potions to brew, and many friends to help out and give friendly advise to, and they all live together in a wonderful world beyond Ponyville. But her best friend, was a filly named Apple the Bloom, or Bloom for short. Now Apple Bloom had some very unusual adventures, and they all happened right here in the Everfree Forest.

Deep in the Everfree Forest
Where Zecora the Zebra brews
You'll find the enchanted neighborhood
Of Zecora's crafting days!

A donkey named Cranky is her friend
And Twilight, and little Spike
There's Pinkie, and Flutters
And there's Owlicious
But most of all Apple the Bloom!

Apple the Bloom, Apple the Bloom
Cutie little fruity all stuffed with love
She's Apple the Bloom, Apple the Bloom
Blanky flanky silly filly!

Apple the Bloom (BLOOM), Apple the Bloom (BLOOM)
Cutie little fruity all stuffed with love
She's Apple the Bloom, Apple the Bloom
Blanky flanky silly filly!

Apple the Bloom lived in this enchanted forest under the name of Macintosh, which means she had the name over the door in big red letters, and she lived under it. Now when Bloom heard her Bloom-coo clock, she knew it was time for something, but she was a pony of very little brain; so when she thought, she thought in the most thoughtful way she could think.

"Haven't thought of anything, have y'all?" Apple Bloom asked herself in the mirror. "No? Neither have I. Think, think, think!" She held her head with her hooves, and tried to think of what it was time for. Her ear twitched, and she thought of the idea. "Oh, yes! Time for my cutie mark exercise! Up, down, up!"

Bloom started stretching up and down, and started singing; "When ah up down, touch the ground, it puts me out of the dark! Up down, touch the ground, out of the dark...." She smile and squees. "For a cutie mark! Ah am blank flank, ah have to thank; speaking of destiny-wise. Ah improve mah intellect, when ah exercise!"

Just then, a strange-looking cutie mark appears on her behind, but she knew it wasn't the right one. "Ooo, cutie pox!" she said, as she rubbed the fake cutie mark off her flank. "That's better, thank you! Now, where was ah?" Just then, Bloom heard a strange DING on her flank, and she looked at it. Her flank sparkled, and she knew her real cutie mark was about to come. "Oh yes! A sparkly in my destiny! Time to make something sweet!"

Bloom skipped to her cabinet, to take out a bowl and a spoon, so she can make an apple pie, and she continued to sing; "Ah am short, young, alot of fun, and so with all mah might! Ah am up, down, up down to, mah destiny's delight! While ah up, down, touch the ground, ah think of things to choose. Apples, water, and flour. With a heft happy destiny, ah'm a hefty happy Bloom!" She took a chair, and reached for the pot with the apples, and looked inside.

She frowned, and stuffed her face inside the pot. "Oh bother, empty again! Only the juicy part is left!" So while Bloom was licking the apple juice in the pot, a fruit bat started squeaking, and flew inside, and flew around the room, and on Bloom's ears. "That squeaking noise means something..... and the only reason for making a squeaking-noise that I know if is because you're..... A FRUIT BAT!" she said excitedly, removing the jar from her face. The fruit bat, booped Bloom's nose, and flew out of her house, and into the tallest apple tree in the orchard. "And the only reason for being a fruit bat, is to make fruit like Apples! And the only reason for making apples is so ah can get a cutie mark with them!"

So Apple the Bloom, climbed the apple tree. She climbed, and she climbed, and she climbed, and as she climbed, she hummed a little hum. "And ah call it mah sparkly in mah destiny song!" she said. Yes, it and went something like this: "Hum dum de dum, hum dum de dum, ah'm so sparkly in mah destiny...." She then bumped her head on a tree branch, and rubbed her head, but continued climbing. "Time to bake an apple cake, hum hum de dum dum dum! Oh ah wouldn't climb this at, if a Bloom flew like a bat! But ah wouldn't be Apple Bloom then, so ah guess ah wouldn't care then! Apple family love apples, and ah'm the Apple Bloom, so ah do care, so ah climb there! Ah'm so sparkly in mah destiny, time for something...." Bloom reached over on a branch to pick an apple, but she struggled. "For something..... SWEET!" The branch broke, and she started falling off the tree, bouncing on and off branches. "To eat! If only ah haven't..... You see, what ah meant to do..... It all comes, ah suppose of..... likin apples so much! Oh bother."

Apple the Bloom landed on a gorse-bush, and she crawled out shortly after. She brushed the prickles out of her nose, and began to think again. "Think, think, think." she said. And the first one she thought of was.... "Apple the Bloom?" No, Zecrora! "Oh."

Zecora lived in another part of the forest, where she could be near her friends and help them with their problems. On this summer day, gloomy ol Cranky Doodle had lost his tail again. "Cranky Doodle, this won't hurt." she said.

"Never does." Cranky said, in a miserable tone.

Zecora hammered Cranky's tail back in place, and asked; "There! Did I get your tail your tail on fair?"

"No matter. Most likely lose it again anyway." Cranky said.

"It is my considered opinion that Cranky's tail should be placed a trifle to the a.... right." Owlicious pointed out.

"Now, if you would ask me, I think it just a wee back...." Twilight started.

"South!" Spike said, while riding on Twilight's back.

"No, no. North, Spike." Twilight corrected him.

"Cheer up, Cranky! Don't be a gloomy ol hay. Try swishing it, it should finish it!" Zecora said. Cranky spun his tail around, but he lost his balance and fell over, and everypony laughed.

"It worked, it worked!" Owlicious said excitedly.

"Oh goody! Hooray!" Spike cheered.

"Thanks. It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it." Cranky said, still with a miserable tone.

"Good morning, Zecora!" Apple Bloom waved, as she joined the group.

"Good morning, Apple Bloom! You came by so soon!" Zecora said.

"Good morning, Apple Bloom!" Twilight and Spike said to her.

"If it is a good morning.... which I doubt." Cranky said. Apple Bloom walked towards Zecora's hut, and tried to look for something useful that can help her pick apples.

"You just came to say hello or..... is there something you're looking for?" Zecora asked.

"Ah just said to myself, coming along thinking and wondering, if you had such a thing as a, umm... such a thing Zecora, a as a.... balloon about you?" Apple Bloom asked.

Zecora detached the balloon off her bike and asked; "My dear Apple Bloom, why would you need a balloon?"

Apple Bloom came up to Zecora's ear and whispered; "Apples."

"Silly Apple Bloom, you can't get apples with a balloon." Zecora reminded her.

"Ah do." Apple Bloom said.

"How?" Zecora asked.

Apple Bloom takes the balloon from Zecora and starts floating. "Ah shall fly like a bat, up to the apple tree, see!" Bloom said.

"But just a minute-may!" Zecora said, grabbing Bloom's hoof and taking her back down. "You can't fool the bats that way."

"You'll see! Now would ya be so kind as to pull me to a muddy place of which ah know of?" Bloom asked, pointing to the mud puddle near the apple tree. So Zecora pulled Apple Bloom to the very muddy place, and rolled around until she was black all over.

"There, now. Isn't this a clever disguise?" Bloom asked Zecora.

"Dear me! What are you suppose to be?" Zecora asked.

"A little black rain cloud, of course!" Bloom said. "Now would you aim me at the bats, please?"

"Careful, you silly ol Bloom. Hold on tight, and you shall have your apples soon!" Zecora said, getting Bloom ready to fly. "Four.... three... two.... one!"

Zecora released the balloon, and Apple Bloom started flying towards the apple tree, and she started singing again; "Ah'm just a little black rain cloud, hoverin under the apple tree.... Ah'm only a little black rain cloud, pay no attention to little me."

Zecora sang along with her; "Everypony knows that a rain cloud, never eats apples, no not a nip...."

"Ah'm just floatin around over the ground, wonderin where ah will drip." Bloom sang, as she was about to pick an apple, but a fruit bat noticed her, and flew on her nose. "Uhh, Zecora? Ah think the bats are.... S-U-S-P-E-C-T somethin." she giggled.

"Perhaps they think you're after their honey." Zecora assumed.

"Well maybe that. Y'all can never tell with bats." Bloom said, reaching her hoof for an apple that was full of bats, and was about to place it in her mouth. "Ah'm just a little black rain cloud, hoverin under the apple tree...." After Bloom placed the apple in her mouth, she started getting a funny feeling inside her house. She started spitting the bats out of her mouth like a machine gun, and continued doing so until her disguise was starting to wear off. One of the bats fell into the mud, and started limping around, and the other bats started hovering all over Apple Bloom. "Zecora? Ah think it would help with this deception if ya get.... kind of open.... yer umbrella and say; 'Tut-tut, it looks like rain'?"

"Tut-tut, it looks like rain!" Zecora said, with her umbrella over her head. "Tut-tut, it looks like rain!" The bat that fell into the mud shook it's mud off itself and flew like a fighter plane up to Bloom's behind and bit her. Apple Bloom started losing control, and her behind got stuck between the branches of the apple tree.

"Ooooh. Zecora, ah have come to a very important decision. These are the wrong sorts of bats!" Just then a bunch of bats swamed out of the apple tree, and Bloom flew very fast forward, so much that the string of the balloon got detached, and the balloon started deflating and flew around. Bloom grabbed onto the balloon and flew along with it really fast, and the bats continued to chase her. But just then the balloon turned around and flew towards the bats, and the bats started to get chased by Bloom. They all went back into the tree, and Bloom flew up in the air real high until the balloon was finally out of air. "ZECORA!" she yelled. "Oh bother. Ah think ah shall fall to."

"I'll catch you, Apple Bloom!" Zecora yelled, as she caught Apple Bloom safely. One of the fruit bats alerted all the other bats, and they started rampaging towards Apple Bloom and Zecora. They both started running away from the incoming swarm. Zecora jumped over a log, and Apple Bloom tried to follow, but she couldn't climb it.

"Help! Zecora!" Bloom cried. Zecora came back and grabbed Apple Bloom, then they both jumped inside the mud puddle with the umbrella over them, and the fruit bats all flew away. "Zecora, ya can never tell with fruit bats." Bloom said, as she spit another fruit bat out of her mouth.

Author's Notes:

This was fun making this! I'm surprised no one made a Winnie the Pooh crossover yet! I hope this story goes well, it ain't like my other stories. I couldn't decide whether to use the fruit bats or the parasprites, but in the end I decided to use the fruit bats, because they were a pain in the flank during the Apple Family Reunion episode, am I right?