Authors note: I don't even know why I bother putting in 'authors notes' half the time. I usually don't have anything important to say and it's not like anyone cares to start with. With that said, I'm going to continue typing them because I can.
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It was late at night and Paul was back in his special spot in the Everfree forest where he was able to work in private on his special thing. Of course you don't get to find out what it is, not just yet. Thankfully, he was nearly done with it, and he'd probably be done in an hour or two at most.

Making things is easy, at least for Paul. Then again, everything is easy for Paul. He was also in a good mood because he wouldn't have to work anymore. Perhaps he should tell Applejack that he quit. Paul decided that that could wait till he was finished with his project.

Several hours passed and he finally finished. At least, mostly. There was one more thing he needed to do before his creation was complete, and he'd have to go back to Ponyville first. That could wait though, first he needed breakfast.

He knew exactly what he was going to have, and thankfully it was still dark. The walk back to Ponyville didn't take long and soon he was walking through the dark, empty streets towards the orchard. Well, the streets were mostly empty. He did see a small pony completely covered in a black outfit dragging a larger pony in a similar outfit through the street. He didn't think much about that though, he had important things to do.

As he got to the barn where Applejack keeps her animals, Paul started to think of ways that he could tell Applejack that he quit. It wasn't hard for him to come up with a good idea and soon he was searching the top level of the barn for paint. Thankfully, the cows were asleep, he hated the way they molested him with their eyes. Sure enough, there were several cans of paint being kept there and he found an already opened can of green stuff.

After also finding a brush, he went outside and started painting on the side of the big red barn in large letters.

I QUIT 8===========D

There, that should get his point across. Protip: green and red are complimentary colors. The more you know. Now that that was done, Paul could get down to the real business. Breakfast!

He walked over to the pig pin and opened it quietly, careful not to wake the big porkers. Once he was successfully inside, he selected a big old mama pig sleeping contently in a corner with a group of tiny baby pigs. Paul couldn't help but notice how peaceful and happy it looked. So, he grabbed its head and in one motion snapped its neck. Content with his kill, Paul hauled the several-hundred-pound pig onto his shoulder and walked outside. Thankfully, he's extremely sneaky, he didn't even wake any of the other pigs.

His next destination was back into the Everfree forest so he could cook this sucker up. He walked a little ways in with the pig on his shoulder before he found a nice spot and made a fire pit. Once that was done he expertly gutted the pig corpse and removed all the muscle. He just chucked the rest of the body behind a tree, some lucky animal was gonna' be sooo happy. Now that that was done, he sliced the meat into long, thin pieces with his claws and laid them against a nearby rock.

Thankfully, he was smart enough to bring a skillet and some salt with him before he came out there and soon he was cooking the bacon to perfection. A nice crispy brown, the way bacon is supposed to be made! He sat alone cooking and devouring the dead pig for a little while before the smell started to attract visitors. And by visitors I mean a manticore. It was fine though, this was the same manticore from last night and they were cool.

"What's up bud, want some bacon?"

The manticore just came up and gave him a bro fist before sitting down and devouring a few pieces of the delicious, crispy substance. Next came the necromancer and Stephen.

"Oh hey." Waved Paul.

"What smells so good?"

"Just cooking bacon, you guys want some?"

The necromancer shrugged and seemed to be thinking about it while Stephen stayed indifferent, like always. "Sure, I guess now that I'm undead I can eat meat."

"I've been meaning to ask you about that. How did you revive yourself anyways?"

The necromancer pony chewed on a piece of bacon for a few seconds before answering. "This is good. Anyways, it just kinda' happened on it's own. I didn't do anything."

"Is it weird being a lich?"

"Not really, it's literally exactly the same as when I was alive. I still have to eat and sleep and stuff."

"That's cool I guess."

They stayed there for about an hour and talked until all the bacon was gone and Paul decided that he had to leave. "Alright guys, I have things to do. By the way, there's a pig carcass behind that tree over there if anyone wants it." The manticore seemed interested and walked over to where Paul had pointed.

"Thanks for the bacon bro."

"No problem necromancer guy, cooking is easy." He then set off again for Ponyville, the sun had been up for a while now. He carefully avoided going anywhere near the apple farm while walking to the library to collect some things. No doubt, Applejack had already seen what he wrote on her barn and was pretty mad. She might also be mad about the missing pig, but Paul decided she wouldn't care because they don't need the pigs.

Once he got back to the library he was surprised to see Twilight already awake inside. She looked pretty tired, but shook herself awake once he entered the building.

"Hey Twilight, you're up early."

"Well, I was sleeping fine until Applejack came barging through the door looking for you!"

"Oh really? What did she want?" Paul feigned confusion. He knew exactly why she had done it.

"I don't know, she was yelling something about how she was gonna' 'hogtie you and throw you in a river'. She seemed pretty mad."

Paul just shrugged. "I can't imagine why, I guess that means I'm fired. Oh well." He tried to play it off cool while walking into the kitchen.

"What do you think you're doing? You can't just come in here in the morning and raid my fridge and then leave. Last time you ate all the eggs and fruit and I had to go buy more."

"Woah, calm your fluffy little nuts Twilight, I already ate this morning. Besides, it's not my fault you bought food, you have plenty of stuff in the cupboard. You don't NEED eggs and fruit."

"It IS your fault because you ate them all!"

"I'm not going to apologize for you being too picky to eat what's in the cupboard. If anything you should apologize to me for blaming everything on me."

"I SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO YOU?!" Twilight looked mad now. "YOU COME INTO MY HOUSE EVERYDAY, EAT MY FOOD, AND YOU WANT ME TO APOLOGIZE?!"

Paul remained chill. "I don't care what you do. Of course you did invite me into your house. I could have gone somewhere else. I suppose I figured that as your guest you would be generous enough to allow me to have food. I guess I was wrong."

Twilight gritted her teeth, there was no arguing with Paul. "Alright, well if you don't want food, then what are you doing in my fridge?"

"I have to get my stuff outa the freezer, duh." Paul acted like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"What are you possibly going to do with a frozen fish?"

"Well, I don't that's any of your business, now is it?"

"I think it is my business because you've been keeping it in my freezer!"

"Wait, so just because it was on your property you somehow own it or something? So just because Spike lives here do you think you own him too?!"

"What! Now you're just being ridiculous! And stop trying to change the subject, I want to know what you're doing!"

"Fine, if you must know. I'm going to go give this fish a proper burial." That was a lie, but she doesn't need to know.

Of course, now she just looked confuses. "Why? It's just a fish."

"JUST A FISH!? Well you're just a pony. I suppose you think that anything that's not a pony doesn't deserve a burial." Like always, he was making her look like the bad guy.

"Pretty much. Only unicorns deserve to be buried, everything else can rot for all I care!" Ok, she made herself look like the bad guy on her own this time...

"Well, that's just like, your opinion man." Paul wasn't entirely sure how to counter that argument so he just started walking towards the door. Twilight didn't even try to stop him as he made his way outside with the ice chest. She didn't want to stop him because she was going to follow him!

"He will die by my hoof." She whispered to herself as she donned a black cloak and trotted outside. "I swear it!"

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Oh snap, dramatic cliffhanger!
This chapters pretty short but what-evs, I just typed this right now because for some reason after getting 3 hours of sleep last night I can't fall asleep again. Like Paul always says, 'sleep is for idiot heads!'
On a side note, the title for this chapter is probably the most descriptive one so far. You don't even have to read this chapter, the title sums the whole thing up nicely.