Stolid the Draconequus
Chapter 4: The Pesky Varmint
Previous ChapterStolid awoke from his slumber in the apple tree as a cat. Instantly memories from yesterday began flowing back into his mind and he cracked a hearty smile and began giggling. He returned to his original form and grabbed an apple from the tree to eat for breakfast. "It needs a few minor alterations." observed Stolid as he began to add to his breakfast. Stolid took a bite out of his apple and was greeted by his new awesome changes. Inside of the apple was a compilation of steak, peanut butter, a candy bar, and a grasshopper. "Yes a grasshopper, get over it" said Stolid to anything that could be watching him.
When he finished his "apple", Stolid looked through the leaves of the trees and saw a misshapen Winona chasing the small yellow filly. she was of course, terrified and running for her life. Winona was running almost too slow to catch the filly due to her lack of two legs. "Help! A monster! Applejack, Big Mac, Granny, anybody, help!" yelled the small yellow filly when she got closer to the house. The larger, orange pony came out, which Stolid presumed was Applejack, and ran towards the small filly. "Where is it? I'll kick its flank back to the Everfree!" said Applejack.
Stolid watched very closely, as he wanted to see Applejack's reaction to her new and improved pet. It wasn't long before Winona came around the house running towards Applejack who just stared in horror. Her mouth hanging slightly open and her eyes as wide as dinner plates. her reaction was a little too cliché for Stolid's taste, so he added something extra to make Winona even scarier.
When Winona started running towards Applejack, Winona released a, "SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!" that made Applejack turn tail and run without any hesitation.
Applejack snatched up Applebloom by the tail and ran for the door. When they got inside, Applejack slammed the door very hard. Winona began to scratch on the door with her horn-legs in a futile attempt to get it open, but to no avail. Stolid had his laugh and flew down to the distressed Winona. Stolid picked her up and flew to a very secluded part of the orchard so he could do some other funny things.
Stolid plopped Winona onto the ground and held her still with his powerful magic. Stolid created one-hundred clones of the mutant Winona and had them stand in a row like a group of soldiers listening to their drill-sergeant. Stolid conjured himself up the clothes of a drill-sergeant and prepared to give his new creations some orders. "Alright you maggots!" yelled Stolid to fully grab the attention of his mutant army. All of them snapped to attention and stared forward like statues. "Today is a good day, to truly freak out some ponies... I have selected you all to partake in the chaos that I am about to initiate. I shall call this plan, the crazy mutant dog horde plan. You should feel very honored. The mutant Winona clones *screeed* in understanding. Stolid continued, "When I blow this whistle, you will all run towards the nearest village and start freaking ponies out! Do I make myself clear!?" yelled Stolid to his army. the Winona clones *screeed* once again to show their understanding of the orders. "very well then." said Stolid as he turned to look toward the town. 'Prepare yourselves ponies, chaos is coming...' thought Stolid in delight. Stolid grabbed his whistle , put it in his mouth and blew in it as hard as he could. The Winona clones *Screeed* as they ran towards the village on their hind legs. stolid turned the original Winona back to normal and let her go free from his magic. She ran as fast as a dog could that day.
Stolid's drill-sergeant clothes disappeared in a flash of golden light as he started to fly towards the farmhouse to cause even more disorder. Stolid flew until the farmhouse came into sight. Stolid landed on the roof and shrank to 1/100th of his original size and then phased through the roof into the farmhouse. Stolid has to go down two floors until he found the two scaredy-ponies huddled in the corner by the front door.
"Is it gone?!" asked a scared Applebloom.
"Ah reckon, but I just hope that Big Mac and Granny are okay. They'll be heading back here from the market soon." replied Applejack. "That monster looked a lot like Winona, I just hope that she is okay too."
Applebloom said, "Ahm sure she can hold her own just fine! She's an Apple too!"
Stolid face-palmed when he just heard what the ponies said. 'How could they not know that the monster was Winona?! It's not like I changed her that much, right?' thought Stolid as he began to look for something to mess up. Stolid looked towards the hallway behind the front door that lead to the rest of the house and created small holes in the walls with monsters inside that would pop out when something got too close. Stolid tested his monster hole by putting his komodo dragon hand in front of it. Surely enough, a small monster popped out and hissed incredibly loud.
"What in Celestia's name was that?!" wondered a horrified Applejack when she heard the hiss.
"It's the monster! It got in the house! whadda we do!" Whispered Applebloom loudly as she began to freak out.
"Shush Applebloom! Ahm a go check. Stay here and don't move." said Applejack. Applejack grabbed one of Granny Smith's old canes off of the cane rack with her mouth and slowly creeped towards the kitchen. Stolid watched as she passed one of the monster holes. A small, serpentine beastie shot out and nipped her right on the hindquarters. "AAAAOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW!" yelled Applejcak as she sprung up into the air and did a flip back towards the door.
"WHAT!" beseeched Applebloom.
"Somethin' bit me! I ain't goin' nowhere away from this spot!" exclaimed Applejack.
Stolid blocked off their conversation and snapped his talon. All of the ground in Sweet Apple Acres started fluctuating like large waves washing up towards a beach. The two farm ponies started to get disorientated by the sudden change in physics. Stolid laughed at the ponies' expense.
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Big Mac and Granny Smith:
Big Mac and Granny Smith were sprinting home with a wagon full of canned foods to store in the pantry. Granny Smith was definitely not sprinting, just sitting in the wagon yelling to Big Macintosh while he pulled her and the food along.
"Run Big Mac! There's one still givin' chase!" Yelled Granny Smith. There was still a mutant Winona chasing them back to the farm.
"Eeyup!" confirmed Big Mac as he increased his speed. Granny Smith pulled out a can of food from the large pile of canned foods that they had bought at the marketplace and lobbed it at the pursuing monstrosity. It hit the beast square in the forehead and made it fall over in a dizzy trance.
"Take that ya pesky varmint!" Yelled Granny Smith in triumph. After she had said that, the wagon started swaying up and down, nearly throwing Granny Smith out of the wagon. "Careful there Macintosh, yah almost sent me flyin'! Said Granny unhappily.
"That wasn't me Granny! Nope!" Retorted Big Mac. Granny Smith soon saw what he meant as the ground was seesawing like mad waves. "What in tarnation?!" yelled Granny Smith totally bewildered at the strange phenomenon. First it was a bunch of mutant Winona's, and now the farm is acting all crazy. What next?
The farmhouse soon came into view and it wasn't long before they parked in front of the farmhouse. Big Macintosh quickly undid his straps to the wagon and helped Granny Smith out of the wagon. They slowly walked to the door and encountered Winona scratching at the door frantically. The ground was still fluctuating uncontrollably, sending the house flailing about like a box floating in the ocean. It was hard to move about, but Big Mac managed to open the door with his key and heard his sister, Applejack yell something.
"You stay back you monster! If you so much as put a foot through that door, then I'll thwack ya so hard you'll never live it down!". Big Mac knew that responding by talking would be the safer than getting hit by Applejack.
"Applejack, it's me an' Granny Smith!" yelled Big Mac.
Applejack shot out around the corner of the door and pulled them both in before slamming it shut, leaving Winona outside. "Are ya okay, there was a monster outside that freaked us out and made me lock the door. Then somethin' bit me in tha hallway and the house started wavin' like a leaf on a windy day! What's goin' on?!"
Granny Smith spoke up, "We know about as much as you d-" before she was cut off by scratching on the door. "That must be Winona, she was scratchin' on the door ta be let in, why didn't ya let her in? There's monsters out there messin' about!
"I thought she was one of em'! One a them things chased us in here!" said Applejack as she opened the door to let Winona in. Winona shot through the seesawing house and got bit by a hole monster in the hallway. She yiped and ran back to the door with the others.
"Winona must have saw somethin' in the kitchen an' ran out! Let's go check it out!" said Applejack. Applejack, Granny Smith, Big Macintosh, and Applebloom slowly crept towards the kitchen with Big Mac leading the way. Little hole monsters all jumped out of the walls and nipped the farm ponies in the flanks. They all freaked out and ran past into the kitchen to be greeted by a very strange sight indeed. A large draconequus was going through their refrigerator and eating all of their apple fritters. The draconequus turned around with his mouth stuffed full and fritter and raised a finger to signal the ponies to hold their horses(No pun intended). It swallowed the load of fritter and said "hi"
Applejack at that moment knew exactly what was causing all of this trouble. She had to deal with Discord making her farm all weird earlier, and he was a draconequus too. "Who tha heck are you!!?" Inquired Granny Smith.
The weird draconequus responded, "Me? I'm just a little old draconequus looking for a place to rest. These fritters are oh so good, what is your secret?"
Granny Smith had no idea what a draconequus was, she just knew that the last time one visited the farm, things went awry. "I don't care what ya are, because you're not welcome here! Now get off ma farm before I get hostile ya crazy varmint!"
The draconequus replied, "We just haven't got off on the right foot is all. Allow me to introduce myself, I am Stolid, the draconequus at your disservice."
Stolid disappeared in a flash of golden light and appeared floating behind the ponies with his uneven arms over Granny Smith's and Applejack's shoulders. "You all must work very hard to get that many apple fritters! I do appreciate hard work you know." said Stolid. Applejack was not to fall for the draconequus's lame attempt to butter them up. Granny Smith, however, was absolutely flattered by Stolid's politeness.
"Well, thank ya kindly Mr. Stolid, I appreciate a good compliment."
Stolid continued, "It also pains me to see just the four of you working so hard all the time constantly trying to get your work done."
"No need to worry about us Mr. Stolid, we Apples have hard workin' genes. It all goes back to our first ancestors when we settled down here." Said Granny Smith.
"I don't care," said Stolid, "you all look so weary and unsettled. I can't allow that to go by!"
Applejack had had enough of Stolid's games. " The only reason that we're all tired is because ya are goin' around and causing a bunch a chaos!"
Stolid harrumphed and teleported back in front of them. "Be that as it may, it doesn't change the fact that you are all very worn out and in need of a well deserved rest. The sleep you get at night is not enough to cover how hard you all work to make fritters and sell apples. I would like to give you all a gift to show my respect for your hard work." finished Stolid.
"Are you gonna fix the house?" inquired Applejack.
"Even better!" exclaimed Stolid as he touched each pony on the head with his talon. Each pony's skin turned blue slowly and they started swaying slowly.
Applebloom started to speak, "I feel really bummed out." before she fell flat on her face and went to sleep. Applejack was not pleased at all with this gift.
"Hey yah Cretin! This gift is terrible..." said Applejack before she joined Applebloom in dreamland. Big Mac did a backflip and landed in a perfect split, due to Stolid wanting something funny, and Granny Smith was already asleep before anypony else noticed.
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Stolid:
"Haha!" said Stolid. "What will the village do now without its apples?". Stolid did a quick jig on the kitchen table and performed a front flip into the air and teleported outside. He flew up into the air and snapped his talon to produce a giant tarp as big as Sweet Apple Acres. Stolid let the tarp fall over the whole apple farm and let it settle. Stolid flew down and tried to lift the tarp but to no avail. "Looks like I'll need to use mah muscles..." Said Stolid. He instantly grew a bigger komodo dragon arm that was so ripped that veins could be seen popping out all around it. Stolid grabbed the tarp and tossed it into the air so high up that it disappeared. The magic tarp trick had been applied here, so when the tarp was lifted, the whole farm was a chaotic mess. from the sky raining frogs that exploded into fireworks when they hit the ground to apple trees running around on their own, things were certainly looking much better in Stolid's eyes. The ground of course was still seesawing and the farm house was flipping around at unimaginable speeds. The farm ponies inside were fine though because they were all sprawled out on a gyroscopic bed. Does it make sense? well it shouldn't.
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Twilight:
Twilight Sparkle had been hiding inside of the library for awhile now with Spike, trying to avoid the random beasts that ran amuck. Twilight had just finished reading a letter for Spike to send about the whole ordeal. "Did you get all of that Spike?"
"Yup" said Spike as he sent the letter through his dragon flames. Twilight cracked open the door a bit and saw some ponies being chased around by the monsters. Most ponies had already retreated to their homes and were in hiding. Some of the less fortunate ponies, like the ones outside still, were cut off by multiple beasts chasing them.
"I'm starting to think that Rainbow Dash was right, Discord may be up to his schemes again...