It was a bright and sunny day in Ponyville
by PaulRap Raptor
Chapters
Chapter One
This is my first MLPFIM fanfic. I came up with this idea back in October when episode 4 came out and I was watching the season 1 episodes. I wanted to have this story posted on Halloween, but I didn’t get around to it and I needed someone to proof read this which happened sometime later in November. I’m going to have a lot of stuff that sounds suggestive from what I have plan in later chapters, but rest assured I won’t write that type of stuff and it would come off as a joke.
September 21st 2012: I reedited this chapter at 11:00 PM MST. I hope I made it better, I wouldn't be surprised if it I made it worst.
Disclaimer: I do not own My Little Pony Friendship is Magic which is property of Hasbro.
It was a bright and sunny day in Equestia, as the fillies and colts of Ponyville left for the annual youth camping trip. All the parents and guardians of these younglings said their goodbyes, as the drivers pull the chariots away. We met up with Twilight Sparkle and her five friends, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Fluttershy, waving goodbye to the fillies and colts as they pass.
“Ah yeah, they are going to have so much fun” Rainbow Dash said as she jumps in the air and floats for a bit, throwing a few punches.
“I have so many great memories when I used to go” she continues after she lands.
“If I remember correctly you were the one that threw that one poor colt into the filly’s side” Rarity adds while she, Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie remembered the event.
“He looked so pretty when we were done with his makeover” Rarity said giggling at the memory.
“What was his name again?” Rarity said pondering out loud; Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie also try to remember as well.
“I wouldn't believe it if you told me we would be best friends in the future back then, I should have remembered that colt’s name at least” Applejack thought out loud reminiscing. She remembers what the colt looked like, but not his name.
“Why do you say that?” Twilight asks in curiosity, because she did not grow up in Ponyville and wanted to know more of this mystery colt.
“I wasn’t a part of that makeover” Applejack answered with a shiver, because she had nightmares for week’s after seeing the colt trotting back to his tent with his head down in shame. She was afraid of waking up to the colt’s face, that had watched her all night, while she slept and then all of the girly girls appearing out of thin air, grabbing her and dragging her off to make her their next makeover victim. She had to see a therapist for the next two to three years when she returned home. Also the colt would have made an unbelievable ugly girl.
“But I do owe him a lot respect, because the boys were distracted when he got back, then me and a few other girls raided some of the boy’s bags, and for a small scrawny fellow he could take a beating” She said with admiration at the memory of the poor colt getting the daylights beaten out of him by the other colts for five hours straight. The other three who were there are now getting a picture of the colt they are talking about, but can’t remember his name.
“What about you Fluttershy, do you know who he was?” Twilight asked with interest on who they were talking about.
Fluttershy turned her head and says “I was sick that year”, the others who lived in Ponyville at the time remembered that she had the flu. They have been trotting to Sugar Cube Corner for a bite to eat for awhile, when they saw the owners Mr. and Mrs. Cake packing a cart outside of the shop.
“HEY, HEY, Mr. and Mrs. Cake where are you going? ‘Gasp’ are you going a trip! ARE YOU, ARE YOU, ARE YOU?” Pinkie Pie asked in her hyperactive way.
“Why, yes we are dear” Mrs. Cake answered, as Mr. Cake was packing their last bag on the cart.
“We won a free trip on a cruise ship” Mr. Cake said. Rarity squeals at the mention of cruise ship and gallops to the married couple with glee.
“Where are you going? No don’t tell the…” Rarity’s question was interrupted by Mr. Cake.
“We don’t know” He said impatiently, earning stares from the six young mares.
“What’ta mean by, ya don’t know?” Applejack asked.
“Well” Mrs. Cake nervously began. “We received an envelope that had a letter with tickets inside, and we are not the only ones” she explained pointing around town. The six young mares took a look around them and saw other ponies packing their carts for what seems to be the same trip.
“Every married pony and their spouse along with foals that are not old enough to go on the camping trip, are going on the same trip” Mr. Cake added, after he hitched himself to the cart. Twilight was intrigued with this turn of events. So she decides to question the couple to gain more insight on this developing mystery.
“When did you receive this letter?” Twilight began to question the two, as everyone around her, turns their attention to her, stopping the Cakes in their tracks.
“This morning with the mail” Mrs. Cake answered with haste, Twilight thought for a bit and then asks.
“How did you discover that the other married ponies were going on the same trip?” her friends began to wonder as well. Mr. and Mrs. Cake begin to sweat at this point.
“Uhh… the shop across the street shouted that he and his wife were going on a free cruise, we started to ask around after that” Mr. Cake answered, with sweat visible on his face, hoping to stop the young mare from asking more questions, because they’re wasting time and needed to be out of town in less than a minute.
“Hmm, Pinkie Pie, have you found Gummy yet?” Mrs. Cake quickly interjected with a question, hoping to distract the young mares long enough so she and her husband could escape.
“Now that you mention it...” Pinkie Pie said with a hoof to her chin trying to figure out where her pet went off to. Her friends turned their attention to her. None of them realizing that the two married ponies had run off.
“I haven’t seen him in a week, oh my gosh what if he was flushed down the drain when I was taking a bath! No he was avoiding me two weeks before that, so he wasn’t taking a bath with me, does he not like me anymore? Of course not everypony likes me!” Pinkie hyper actively shouted. Rainbow Dash rolling her eyes in a sort of disagreement with her friend’s last statement. Her friends that had pets of their own began to dwell on the same thought. All of their pets were acting weird and just like Gummy; the pets didn’t want to be in the same room as their owners and tried to escape whenever possible and have done so. They haven’t been seen for the last week.
“Spike has been acting strange as well and…” Twilight stated with her head lowing at the end, embarrass at what she was about to ask her friends.
“Do I smell… bad?” she asked her friends who look at her as if her head had just bloomed like a flower, expect Rarity who gasped and nearly fainted.
“Why on earth would ya say that sugar cube?” Applejack inquired with a confuse tone on why her friend would say such a thing.
“Because, Spike said I smelled and I didn’t believe him at first, but he kept gagging and holding his nose whenever I entered the same room or area as he. I took at least three baths yesterday, but Spike still said that I smelled and he’s done the same to everypony that he has come into contact with” Twilight said. Her friends had looks of disbelief at her statement.
“He’s just pulling a “gag” on you” Rainbow Dash said with humor in her voice with emphasis on the pun.
“No, he wasn’t faking, I thought he was playing a joke, but he was sincere” Twilight replied sadly. Rarity moves closer to her friend and began to sniff her.
“Darling you smell fine and next time he says that, send him over to my shop, I’ll set him straight on his manners” Said Rarity when she was done smelling her friend. She knows that the baby dragon would be putty in her hooves and do anything she wanted. Twilight was uncomfortable with that statement, for the way it sounded suggests something else would happen in her friend’s shop that had nothing to do with manners. Rarity realized what she said sounded suggestive.
“Not like that no way, absolutely not, not in that way” Rarity said not wanting her friends to believe that she was interested in the whole dating out of her species sort of thing, which she is not interested in Spike that way. Applejack deciding to end this line of conversation, before Pinkie Pie says something that would take this situation beyond the comfort zone.
“Well sorry to interrupt but have any of you seen Granny Smith, she’s been missing for a week” Applejack said with a breath of relief because Pinkie had that look in her eye that lead her to sing a song, that would be about the situation going on. Pinkie Pie began to speak anyway, which in turn made Applejack cringe and prepare for the worst.
“Oh oh, I know I know I saw her sometime last week, I think it was Tuesday, no wait it was Thursday! But anyway, she was on a cart with Ponyville’s other elderly going to the beach!” Pinkie quickly shouted, Applejack let out a sigh of relief while Twilight listened carefully to this new piece of information, for it adds more insight on this mystery.
“How would you know where they were going?” Twilight inquired giddily, for it was almost like one her mystery novels come to life.
“The banner on the side said so” Pinkie replied with a smile.
“I think?” she added, Twilight became depress and let out a sigh that this mystery was going nowhere and her stomach growled; she forgot breakfast again because it was Spike’s turn to cook.
“Who’s hungry let’s get some lunch now ya’ll” Applejack said as the other ponies agreed expect one.
“Thank you, but no thanks” Fluttershy meekly said then turn in the other direction with her head still facing her friends.
“I’m going home to see if Angel or any of the other animals I care for have come back yet, the cottage has been very lonely lately” She said in her normal quiet voice that now held a mournful tone to it, turning her head the other way. For she was sad that none of her little friends were around, it was one of her few joys in this world and it was her talent and with nothing to do, she could only hope that they would return home for she had already attempted to look for them with no luck what so ever. Her friends wave a solemn goodbye and went on their way to receive nourishment.
“There is one thing that’s been bothering me for a while” Rainbow Dash said out of the blue. Fluttershy stops her trot to hear what her friend was going to say next.
“What is that Dashie?” Pinkie asked her friend, hopping up to her side.
“I don’t see any stallions in the marketplace” Rainbow Dash said in annoyance at the nickname.
“They have been acting mighty weird lately” Applejack added as the stallions have been progressively acting strange over the last few days. The only ponies in the marketplace were all mares of their age group and normally there would be a few stallions here and there, around this time of the day. This piece of information would have restored the mystery that Twilight was interested in, but she was too hungry to care at the moment along with the others.
Fluttershy overheard her friends and also took notice, but didn’t dwell on what was said for long and then continues her trot and begins her trek home.
(Meanwhile in a field three miles away)
Big Macintosh and all of the stallions of Ponyville and other surrounding settlements, were gathered together in front of a stage with a blank white screen behind it near the Everfree forest. Big Macintosh was at the end of discussing the plan.
“Does everypony understand the plan now, the reason why we’re doing this, why we have stallions from other places beside our own town is because there are more females then males and all questions answered about selective targeting where you can have a mare of your choice set aside for you, do ya’ll understand now!?” He shouts at the assembled group. They nod in response, then Big Mac continues.
“If we’re done here we only have about an hour and forty five minutes at most to train before we ride into town and I won’t be surprise if that turns into less than half an hour!” Big Mac yelled in frustration that he had to go over this plan with his fellow stallions five times in the last three or so hours. Also the reason they were assembled out there instead of in town was because the last time that this plan was attempted it ended in disaster. Taking a few deep breaths to clam himself down for there was one more item of business before they can train with a training montage.
“Okay now if any of you have a girlfriend or a certain mare that has caught your eye raise your hooves now so we can set them aside if we find them” he said only to see that he was the only one who has raise his hoof. All of the other stallions look around sheepishly at anything that wasn’t in the direction of the stage, along with a cough. For a full minute he stared at them with his jaw slacked.
“Seriously, I know for a fact that a lot of ya’ll have girlfriends!” he yelled dumbfounded at the assembly.
“So what happened!?” he asked only to receive a chorus of “we broke up” “she didn’t really like me that way” and “she didn’t like my advances” and other similar lines are what he heard from the crowd. Big Mac facehoofed at that moment. He then hears two arguing in the center row, he jumps from the stage and gallops to the commotion to settle the matter, for there wasn’t time for a fight and it possibly could end up with all of them in a brawl.
When Big Mac arrives at the scene he sees the two stallions that were engaged in a disagreement. One was a light brown coated unicorn, with a brown mane and tail. A setting sun on his flank, he also wore glasses and the other was a cobalt coated earth pony with a red mane and tail. A fleur-de-les on his flank, he also had a gauntlet on his entire right foreleg with a breastplate that had straps holding it in place. They stop their argument and stand at attention, as soon as they notice Big Mac standing in front of them. He eyed the two ponies carefully, the light brown one was of average size while the other would be the second biggest pony there he was bigger than the others, but nowhere near his own size.
“So what’s the problem here?” he asks.
“My friend here has a photograph from over ten years ago and was embarrassed to show it, for you see he has a hard time explaining and thought he would embarrass himself if he were to show the photo first” the light brown coated stallion politely explains. The cobalt coated stallion glares at his companion, then pulls the photo out of his breast plate and shows it to Big Mac.
“I don’t know if she still lives in Ponyville or not, it’s been ten years since I have been home” the cobalt coated stallion said with meekness in his tone while looking at the ground to his left. Big Mac looks over the picture and recognizes the filly in the photo, then smiles.
“I know her, she still lives here” Big Mac said, then the dark blue pony suddenly snaps his head to look at him.
“Really?” he asked with excitement and a happy look on his face at the sound of the news.
“Eeyup” Big Mac answered. Unease at the sudden change of mood from the other pony, while said pony now has a devious grin on his face, which is unsettling to look at.
“By any chance what is your name?” Big Mac asked in hope that the facial expression that he was looking at would change.
“My name is Lancer” he said happily with a normal smile. Big Mac stares at him for a bit at how fast his mood and facial expression changed. He turned to his companion hoping to get an explanation, but decided not to bother with it and trots off before the unicorn could speak.
Big Mac approaches a stallion that was in charge of the profile book of the mares that are currently in Ponyville. He takes the book and quickly scans through it until he found the two profiles that he was looking for, he gives them to another who operates an overhead projector and then begins to gallop back to the stage for time was running out. Before he gets back to the stage he begins to shouts.
“Now pay attention to the screen it’s showing the only two mares that are off limits!” while the overhead projector projects the images of the profiles of the two mares (that I the author will not reveal at this time). As soon as the dark red pony gets back on the stage, the projection ends and his facial expression becomes serious.
“Now I reckon that ya’ll had a good long look at that screen, for if any ya’ll claim one those two I’ll personally crush you like I did to that rock!” he yelled pointing at what use to be Tom the rock, which is now a pile of sand. All of those assembled cringed remembering the feat of strength that their leader showcased at the beginning of the meeting.
“Anything else?” he asked in a ragged tone which resulted in the crowd shaking their heads no. Breathing out a sigh of relief, this is the most he has ever talked in his whole life.
“Good, now let’s begin” he said raggedy with a smile of satisfaction.
(Meanwhile back at Fluttershy’s cottage)
Fluttershy has just returned home and found it empty as it was when she left it that morning. Sighing in disappointment that the woodland creatures haven’t returned bought a tear to her eye as she trots to the steam that ran under the bridge close to her home for a drink. When she was done there was a peculiar aftertaste. She tries to identify the flavor and decides to drink some more water. Failing to figure out the taste she drunk some water and swishes it around in her mouth, it started to become more familiar.
Then it dawned on her that she had tasted this odd flavor before a few years back. She swallows and then ponders on where she had come across this weird bitter taste before. Then her eyes became wide and fear began to course through her body as the memory resurfaced.
‘It can’t be’ she thought. In an attempt to prove herself wrong, she took a mouthful and begins to swish the liquid in her mouth and found the peculiar bitter taste to be more potent. Her fear has been confirmed and gulps unintentionally.
“Not again” she said in silent fear to herself as this has happened before. The signs were all there, the married adults and all elderly along with the teenagers and foal were out of town on special events, all of the animals and young adult male ponies were acting strange and all the young adults being the only ponies in the area with the water being the final sign and it tasted stronger than she remembered. With adrenaline pumping into her veins she runs full speed back to Ponyville. to warn the others before it’s too late.
The more I thought about it, the more that this was a satire/parody of the mares in heat stories, than the zombie apocalypse “concept” as I original plan. Tell me how I did, what you liked or hated about it and what grammar mistakes I’ve made and yes I took a pony from that “My Little Pony Tales” TV show and altered his personality and look a bit. I like recycling.
Chapter Two
I have one thing to say before we get started… I LOVE YOU GUYS! I thank all of you who commented and showed me what I doing wrong and I felt I improved greatly because of it and you guys are better than Fanfiction.net and no one told me what was wrong with my grammar before I posted this. I honestly did not really understand what past and present tense meant.
Now that’s out of the way I’m sorry this is a short chapter. I originally planned to have this longer but I gave myself a deadline and I knew I wouldn’t get all of the things I wanted in the chapter so I decided to stretch it into three chapters. I am almost done with the next chapter and I would have been finished a while back, but I wanted to make this chapter longer and I got lazy over the weekend.
Anyways before I forget HAPPY LEAP YEAR DAY!
Disclaimer: I do not own My Little Pony Friendship is Magic which is property of Hasbro.
Fluttershy ran into town at the strike of the hour with the sound of the clock tower ringing. A town wide party has been in full swing in the time she has been gone. She attempts to warn her fellow mares, but as it was when the dragon that decided to take a nap close to Ponyville her pleas went ignored and unheard. Now she began to panic as everyone around her were dancing and having sweets and drinking water on this hot day.
‘Why is it so hot today?’ was the thought going through her head while sweating profusely then she looked up and noticed the weather.
‘A heat wave, but there isn’t suppose be one scheduled anytime soon, Rainbow Dash would have told us… unless’ Fluttershy begins to ponder on her last line of thoughts and then it hit her.
‘OF COUSE, with this heat wave along with great dance music we would become thirsty and drink more of the tainted water and become easy prey to the Males’ she thought with fright and a shiver at the end of her thought.
“I need to find something to drink” she said with a dry mouth and due to the heat she was dehydrated and she has no desire to intake anymore the tainted water. She trots to the nearest stand that was being run by a mare known as Berry Punch.
“Hmm… Excuse me” Fluttershy said with her normal quiet voice. Berry Punch barely heared her over the music and other party goers, she began to look for the source of the small voice when she finally sees who spoke and realizes that Fluttershy was talking to her.
“Oh sorry I didn’t hear you there” Berry Punch apologized.
“It’s okay” Fluttershy said accepting the apology.
“I was wondering if you had any…” she paused looking at what Berry Punch has on her stand only to see bottled water on display.
“…Juice or soda?” She asked being caution of anything water at the moment. Berry Punch shakes her head no.
“Sorry hun I’ve been out of everything except this new brand of bottled water” Berry Punch said holding a bottle. This caught Fluttershy’s interest.
‘It can’t be made from Ponyville’s tap water right?’ Fluttershy questioned as she took a bottle to inspect it.
“How much?” she asked after ten or so seconds later.
“It’s free, the company is having a promotion and they supplied the whole party!” Berry Punch said with excitement. This would have set warning bells off in Fluttershy’s brain to be careful if it’s part of the trap, but she was too thirsty to care at the moment so she drinks the whole bottle dry. Fluttershy found the water to be quite good and refreshing to the point that she forgets her worries.
“Where did this water come from I must know?!” She asked with excitement as she grabs the biggest bottle from the stand and begins to down it. Berry Punch smiles at how happy Fluttershy had become.
“It’s from Ponyville spring water and the company opened a few days ago” Berry Punch answered cheerfully as Fluttershy nearly gagged on her water and begins to tear up for this water had to be tainted and also the aftertaste was barely there when she consecrated on the taste. Berry Punch took her reaction the wrong way.
“There, There” Berry Punch cooed as she went to Fluttershy’s side and started to pat her back in a comforting matter.
“I’m sorry that I didn’t have juice, but I’ll have a shipment in three weeks” she said reassuring the other mare.
“There won’t be a next week” Fluttershy whimpered out loud. Berry Punch once again misunderstood the yellow Pegasus, let out a sigh at her behavior.
“Why does everypony believe that it’s the end of the world when I run out of their favorite brand of drink?” Berry Punch asked herself in frustration. She begins to leave and looks back at Fluttershy and says.
“I’m going to join the party now, I was only running that stand until it no longer had any extra bottles in its storage compartment” when she finished she waves good bye and canters into the crowds of ponies with a cheer. Fluttershy continues to stand where she was until she drinks the rest of her water bottle.
‘What’s the point of fighting it anymore’ were her thoughts as she drank. When it was empty she let out a sigh with tears beginning to come forth.
‘We’re all going to “die”’ she sadly thought as she walks down the street with her head down with the sound of the party getting more wild by the second.
Once again I’m sorry it’s short and the extra bit was going to be a flashback on what happened the first time but it needs work and I’ll have it in the next chapter. Hopefully I will have chapter 3 up on March 16th or 17th if not it will be up at the end of the month. Comment me on what you like or hate about it or any and all grammar issues you can find. Thank you for reading and one more time HAPPY LEAP YEAR DAY!
PaulRap Raptor.