Before you ask... no. This isn't one of those "If I were an Anime" chapters... it's literally just a short chapter to get the ball rolling!

It was a beautiful morning in the Pie Family's Rock Farm. With the winter having been successfully wrapped up, the Glowing Crystals were already put away, back into the storage facility, so that they could be used again next time.

From inside the small two-story house that sat high atop the center of the farm, a group of bells chimed through the open windows, signaling to the residents inside that breakfast was ready.

Near the outskirts, stepping out of a tool shed, however, was a young man wielding an axe, with a note held in his free hand.

Stone, thy tasks for today shall be simple. We ask that thou cut ten of the trees in the Western Fields down, while Limestone helps thee with carrying them over to the Lumber Storage. Thou mustn't delay thy breakfast, though! If thou gets hungry, we shall be at the table, whenever thou art ready.

-Igneous

PS - Be careful when using the axe, though... don't want to have to patch your thick skull up again, with extra cuts to tend to! Oh, and most importantly, STAY AWAY FROM HOLDER'S BOULDER!

-Limestone

He chuckled as he looked up at the bandages wrapped around his scalp; a small reminder for him, after a slight portal malfunction.

When the portals between Earth and Equestria opened up, they were still very unstable. Unfortunate for him, though, he was standing right where one of them was due to open. When he woke up, he was bleeding out in a shed, with a large rock covered in blood... his blood.

He was quickly treated by Limestone Pie, who was the first to discover him. Thankfully, he wasn't the only human to arrive, and one of the others near there happened to be a doctor.

Unfortunately, he was suffering memory loss, either due to the impact on his head from the rock or as a side-effect of the portal glitching on him. Thankfully it wasn't terminal, and that he still had the ability to gain new memories to keep... but he may never be able to regain his old ones.

His clothes were badly torn, and his possessions in his pockets were burnt beyond recognition, so he had no way of recollecting his name, his address, or his ID Number.

And that was about a month ago.

His head wounds were healing up nicely, though. He felt that it would be safe to take the bandages off within a week's time, but he had to at least take the doctor's precautions for safety's sake.

That, plus he didn't want to have to deal with Limestone's attitude today. Ever since he woke up, she would yell at him, point out something he was doing wrong (despite just laying in bed to recover), and complain that he was staring at her for too long... even if he was only looking at her for a second (to which, she would "ask" if he was ignoring her).

He didn't know what her deal was, but according to her sisters Maud, Marble (who only confirmed with a nod), and Pinkie Pie, it's just the way she's always been.

While lost in his train of thought, he failed to notice a stray rock protruding from the ground right in his path. As soon as he kicked it, he yelped and fell, face-first, into the dirt while the axe flew in the air.

He sat up and rubbed his aching head, only to slightly jump when the axe landed mere inches away from the area in-between his legs.

"Whoa... that landed surprisingly closer than it did yesterday!" he thought to himself. Giving the land below him a good shove, he soon rose back up to his feet and drew the axe from the ground.

"Need to hurry... I should at least get one tree cut down before breakfast. That way I can prove that I can help out around here!"

Before he could continue, however, the axe's head fell off, bouncing off of his steel-toed boots.

He looked down and sighed, before lifting the head back up. "Well... after I super glue this thing back on... wait, do ponies even make glue?!"

Wincing at the thoughts of what glue is even made of, he shook his head and wandered down the hill, back towards the barn. "Maybe they make glue with magic? Eh, I don't know..."

As he continued to converse with himself, little did he know that activity was already starting up inside the house.

A bell that was rested over a large bed began to ring, signaling to the two mares that slept on top of the bed that it was time to wake up - Limestone and Marble Pie.

Limestone's eyes slowly opened, followed by Marble's. With a frustrated groan, Limestone hopped out of bed while Marble gently and quietly slipped her hooves out of the covers, and gracefully stepped onto the floor below; the opposite of her sister's habits.

When the two approached the door, however, Marble paused to let Limestone exit first. The latter, however, did the same, before motioning for Marble to go ahead.

When she refused with a meek shake of the head, Limestone groaned before roughly, yet carefully, shoving her sister out.

When they entered the dining room, their parents, Igneous Rock and Cloudy Quartz, were already at the table, where five bowls of green soup rested. Within the center of each bowl, a rock rested to provide flavor.

When everyone was seated, they waited for the door to open.

This waiting ended up taking well over five minutes.

Finally, when no signs of anyone entering the house were met, all eyes turned to Limestone.

Rolling her eyes, Limestone stood from her seat and sighed. "Fine, I'll go and get him..."

And with that, she stepped outside the front door while the parents and their remaining daughter sat patiently.

Stone finally managed to get the axe head to stay on the handle thanks to, much to his surprise, magical glue. As he figured, the glue didn't have any horse or pony parts in it, and was instead made up of sticky herbs and magic dust found in a place called "Tall Tail Mountain".

He smirked as visions of ponies with unimaginably long tails and manes began to float through his mind. These visions, of course, led to him bumping his head on a tree branch.

With yet another yelp, he fell on his back, though this time he was lucky enough to keep the axe away from his manly bits.

He rubbed his forehead that, to his unfortunate dismay, was now hurting even more.

"Ugh... what even caused this curse to befall me?" he groaned.

He stood back up and dusted the dirt from his overalls, then glared at the tree that knocked him down. Finally, with a wicked grin, he gripped the axe firmly and lifted it over his shoulders.

"Oh, you wanna play like that, do ya... tree?! Well lucky for me, you happen to be on the 'list'... and so, you're going down!"

With a firm grip and a much more safer posture, he reached the axe behind his back and braced for the impact.

Then, with the fury of a thousand humans and the strength of one, he swung the axe in a direct collision course for the tree.

Meanwhile, in Ponyville...

A trio of figures were sitting behind a bush; a lavender unicorn, a baby dragon, and a light skinned human with dark brown hair.

The unicorn was staring at a pink mare from the distance, who was sniffing a flower near a school building.

"Alright, Spike! Justin! Take this down!" the unicorn noted, while the drake and the human nodded their heads and began scribbling in a notebook.

"Itchy... nose."

Justin tilted his head and asked, "Um... Twilight, you sure that Pinkie's nose isn't just itchy? I know mine can get itchy when I sniff a flower."

Spike nodded his head, but remained silent... though when he looked at Justin's notebook, he smirked at the badly drawn doodle of Twilight wearing large dorky glasses and lecturing a sleeping stick figure.

She shook her head and replied, "No, because now she's looking around and..." she gasped at a sudden development.

"Ah-HA! That makes no sense! She's hiding underneath something, like she expects something to fall! But she clearly claimed that a twitchy tail was that sign!"

And now, back to the Rock Farm...

Limestone rubbed her eyes as the morning sun shone brightly. "Ugh... gonna need to call the pegasi and ask them for some clouds today..."

She was halfway towards the Tree Fields when she spotted Stone rushing her way.

"Ugh, there you are! What the hay were you doing?! Didn't I tell you to set some sort of alarm or-" Before she could continue to complain, she yelped in total surprise when he scooped her up and slung her over his shoulders, not daring to move any slower.

"EEK! STONE, WHAT IN EQUESTRIA ARE YOU DOING?! PUT ME DOWN! PUT ME-" Her ears twitched at the sound of a loud buzzing roar. As soon as she looked back, her ears slumped down as a newfound horror struck her vision.

A thick cloud of bees floated from the corners of the trees, heading directly towards them.

"BUCK THAT! MOVE FASTER, MOVE FASTER!" She didn't have to tell him twice... but in her panic, she closed her eyes and firmly hugged his head, blinding him, and nearly crushing his already injured cranium.

"I CAN'T SEE! LIMESTONE, GET YOUR HOOVES OUT OF MY EYES!" he screamed.

She opened her eyes and gasped at the direction they were heading.

"NO! DON'T LEAD THEM TOWARDS THE HOUSE! THEY'LL FLY INSIDE THE CHIMNEY!"

He nodded and shifted around a little, though her hooves still blocked his eyesight.

"EEK! YOU'RE GOING INTO THE SWARM, NOW!"

He groaned before reaching up and pulling her hooves down... but when he saw the swarm, he turned to the right and sped further away.

At this point, the bees were inching closer to them.

As if by a stroke of luck, the two of them spotted a lake.

Stone smiled widely, while Limestone glared at him.

"Stone! So help me, if you're thinking what I'm thinking, I'm going to-" Her words were interrupted when he leaped into the air and dive-bombed into the water, covering both his and Limestone's mouths and nostrils in the process.

An ominous shadow quickly flew over them as the bees flew past the water. After thirty seconds, however, the bees lost interest, and flew away from the area, past the horizon.

As Twilight continued to lecture Spike and Justin about how the "Pinkie Sense" is only a bunch of mere coincidences, a tall swarm of bees approached them.

Justin and Spike both gulped before attempting to get Twilight's attention. Their attempts, however, were fruitless.

Then the two of them dropped their clipboards and ran away, Spike towards the town, and Justin towards the school.

Twilight, while still in her "zone", was soon swarmed by a bunch of bees, where she would receive a bunch of stings. And while Justin quickly approached wearing a bee suit to rescue her, that would be a story for another time...

Stone gasped for air as both he and Limestone emerged from the lake. He fell on his knees and spat the water out while Limestone, who repeated the same actions he was doing, glared and popped him in the back of the head.

"Ouch! What was that for?!" Stone complained, rubbing the back of his head that now was even more achy.

Limestone harrumphed and started trotting back towards the house. "For getting my mane wet! Now hurry up, or we're gonna miss out on breakfast!"

Stone sighed, nodded his head, and then followed her home.

She paused her movements, however, and hummed. Then, turning towards him, she murmured something, but with her mane over her face, she could barely be heard, and her facial expression could barely be read. The only notable thing was the slightly red tint on her cheeks.

"Oh, and... thanks for saving me from those bees..."

He tilted his head and placed his hand over his ear. "Hm? Oh, sorry... what was that?"

She shook her mane from her eyes and groaned. "I said pay attention to where you're going next time, moron! Gosh, can't you clean your bucking ears out for a change? Or did you do something to your hearing while we weren't around you?!"

And thus, his attention was dragged away as she continued to spout more and more insults his way... the entire trip back home, in fact.

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Author's Notes:

>Self-Insert tag isn't used because my appearance was only a cameo! Ask, and I could make you and/or your character(s) a cameo, too!<