Ponies of the Civil War

The Apple Farm

Applejack, Jackson, Nathan, and George were just in front of Sweet Apple Acres when Big Mac, Granny Smith, and Apple Bloom come out the house to greet them. Apple Bloom was hiding behind Big Mac as they came up to the house staring at the humans with a curious expression. Applejack asked Big Mac, “Has the farm been doing ok since I left to check on these fellas?” Big Mac responded with, “Eyep”.

“Well thats good to hear now how about you and Granny smith come over and greet our guests?” Applejack said to Apple Bloom. Jackson sees Nathan and George turn to look at the two new ponies one was an old green pony with a gray main and the other was a young yellow filly with a red mane.

Before Jackson could react Nathan yelled “OH MY GOD YOU ARE ADORABLE!!!” and started running towards Apple Bloom. Apple Bloom looked terrified and tried to run away but Nathan caught up to her grabbing the pony and started petting it like it was a little dog.

Everyone else just stared in shock until George got yelled at him, “What are you doing Nathen you are a man in the army you do not act this way!”.

To which Nathan replied, “BUT IT'S SOO FLUFFY!!!”

“That is not an excuse”, George said as he started to move forward to get Nathan to stop petting the little filly that was now starting to enjoy being petted.

But Applejack stopped him saying, “It's alright she is enjoying it but the one your friend is petting is Apple Bloom and the other is Granny Smith” Jackson greeted them both as did George while Nathan was still engrossed in petting the little filly. “Y’all want to follow me so we can go get y’all set up for the night”, said Applejack. Jackson and his friends followed Applejack into the house and up the stairs.

George turned to Nathan and said, “Let me see that” and took Apple Bloom from him. He immediately turned back to Nathan, “Dude you're right she is fluffy”

Nathan responded, “I know right and she's so freaking adorable”. Apple Bloom blushed at this while Jackson and Applejack just rolled their eyes. They continued into the room which was a decent sized room with four beds and a window looking over the apple orchard in it.

Applejack said, “This room is used as a guest bedroom when our extended family come to visit and y'all came at a good time tomorrow is the apple family reunion and you will get to meet all of the apple family there that is if y’all want to come.”

“We would love to go”, replied Jackson before any of of his friends could say otherwise.

“Thats good to hear”, said Applejack, “Now if you wouldn’t mind putting Apple Bloom down she needs to get some sleep its a big day tomorrow and we still have things to get ready for tomorrow”.

“We could help you set everything up if you want”, replied Jackson as George and Nathan regretfully put Apple Bloom down and she scampered off to her room.

Applejack said, “Y’all don’t have to do that”.

Jackson said, “No I insist after what you're doing for us it is the least we could do.” Both Nathan and George shook there heads in agreement.

“Well since y’all insist I’ll wake y’all up early in the morning so we can get breakfast before we start on the preparations”, Replied Applejack as she turned to go out the room but before she left she turned around and said, “If y’all need anything I am just down the hall in the room to the left”.

Jackson replied, “Thank you we will let you know if we need anything”. As he watched Applejack walk out of the room and turned back to his two companions. Each one of his friends had selected a bed as there own and had put their packs on the spare bed but before they went to bed Jackson spoke up, “I think one of us should stand guard while the other two sleep and we will switch off in shifts because I really don’t trust that Twilight not to try and sneak in here and try some experiments on us.”

Both of his friends nodded in agreement and Jackson took the first shift while the other two slept. He stood guard for about three hours before his shift was over and he woke up Nathan for his shift as the guard and Jackson quickly dozed off. He woke up next morning from hearing Applejack call from down stairs saying breakfast was ready. He opened his eyes and had the scare of his life. Right above him staring right into his eyes was Twilight with a quill and paper levitating right beside her and it was writing things down.

Jackson did what any rational man would do in his situation he screamed which caused twilight to scream which caused George and Nathan to wake up and start screaming. Applejack ran into the room and asked, “What are y’all yelling about?”.

Nathan screamed, “I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE YELLING ABOUT!!!”, causing the rest of the room to fall silent.

Applejack turned to look at Twilight and asked, “What are you doing in here and how did you even get in here ?” All of them turned to look at twilight who was still right in front of Jackson.

She looked down a little ashamed and said, “I kind of teleported in so I could study them”.

“Wait how did you even manage to get in here without us knowing we had a guard posted all night?”, asked Jackson.

Twilight lowered her head further and said, “I used a sleeping spell on George when he was standing guard.”

George, Nathan, and Jackson all stared in shock and they all said in unison, “You can do that?”

Twilight just nodded her head while Applejack looked at her and said, “You know you shouldn’t do that Twi you need to respect their space you wouldn’t want ponies doing that to you”.

Twilight said, “I guess you're right but can I still come to watch them on how they react around a big group of ponies?”

“Thats up to them”, responded Applejack. Twilight turned to the three humans and with big puppy dog eyes begged them to let her observe.

Jackson sighs and says, “I guess you can but no more knocking us out and standing over us there are just some things you don’t do.”

Twilight brightened up at this and said, “Thank you, thank you, thank you, you won't regret this.” Jackson was having second thoughts about his choice but decided to keep his thoughts to himself as Applejack leads them down stairs and into the dining room where Apple Bloom, Big Mac, and Granny Smith are already sitting and eating their breakfast.

when all of them walk down the stairs Apple Bloom looks up and said, “Hey Twilight I didn’t know you would be here mind me asking why you’re here?”

Twilight responded, “I'm here to study the humans for Princess Celestia and now is the perfect time to observe their eating habits”.

“Thats right what do y’all normally eat and I will see if we have any”, said Applejack. Twilight quickly brought out a quill, paper, and ink and prepared to write down everything they said.

Jackson thought for a second and said, “Normally for breakfast we eat things like Bacon, Biscuits with jam, and grits”.

Twilight quickly wrote all of this down but stopped and asked “what's Bacon?”

Nathan with a horror look on his face said “Bacon is the best thing that’s ever been invented it’s pig fried over a fire and it’s basically meat candy”.

All of the ponies with shocked expressions looked at the humans which they met with with questioning glances. Apple Bloom was the the first to recover and yelled “Y’all eat meat!?!”.

Jackson responded with, “Yes is there somthing wrong with that?”.

Applejack responded “No not exactly we just ponies don’t eat meat”, as Twilight was quickly writing all of this down. Applejack continued, “We don’t have any bacon but we do have apple jam and biscuits will those do?”.

Jackson responded, “Yeah that will do. We're omnivores so we eat both meat and plants.” Applejack gave a relieved sigh and went to fetch the food they had asked for.

When she came back she said, “Here y’all go you can eat while we're on our way to set things up” They continued out the door to set things up for the reunion.

Back on Earth

“Mr. Lincoln we have a report to give you on some strange happenings that have taken place at Gettysburg”, said one of the presidents secretaries.

Lincoln said, “Hand it here and let me look it over.” He took the paper and started looking it over and said “This is interesting men disappearing when they are supposed to die and leaving a magical residue”. He turns to his secretary and says, “Leave me I must consult this with our expert”. His secretary simply bowed and backed out of the room.

Lincoln turned to a black figure that had just appeared and said, “Now what do you think of this King Sombra?”

Back in Equestria

“Well it took a while but we finally got it finished”, said Applejack as she looked over all the preparations they managed to get done in the past few hours. Jackson was admiring the work they had done from setting up the apple fritter tables to the sewing circle as the first of the apple family started to arrive. There were so many of them that Jackson couldn’t hope to count them. They each started at the humans in wonder and asked them questions on where they came from and they answered their questions as best they could.

The Apple family accepts them like one of their own even letting them do the six legged race or the three legged race in their case and they all had a grand time. pretty soon it was time to eat and all but one of the tables had a tablecloth on it and was set for eating and Applejack asked Apple Bloom to find one to put on it so everything can be ready. Apple Bloom is looking around for one and simply cannot find one until she sees a cloth hanging out from one of the humans packs she grabs it and it turns out to be just big enough for the table. Apple bloom thinks, “This sure is a fancy table cloth with the X and stars on it and all I hope Jackson don't mind me using it”.

Jackson was enjoying the time he was having chatting with all the different ponies and soon Applejack rings the dinner bell and says, “It’s time to eat y'all”. Nathan, Jackson, and George head towards the dining area that they had set up earlier that day but their hearts stop when they see Apple Bloom laying there country's flag on a table like it was a simple table cloth.

Before Jackson even realizes what he is doing he starts running at Apple Bloom screaming, “WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?!” Apple Bloom turns around and sees Jackson running at her looking raging mad followed quickly by Nathan and George both equally looking equally mad. Apple Bloom is shaking in fear when they reach her and Applejack runs over to see what the yelling is about. Jackson when he reaches Apple Bloom “I ASKED WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?!”

“I was just putting the tablecloth on the table” Apple Bloom squeaked trying her best to be as small as possible while looking up with big worried eyes.

Applejack just reaches the table and asks, “What's going on?”

Jackson through clenched teeth says, “She just put my nations flag down like a simple tablecloth”, and continues to yell “DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY OF MY BROTHERS I WATCHED DIE FOR THIS FLAG!?! DO YOU!?! I SHARED THEIR DYING MOMENTS WITH THEM AND YOU JUST USE IT AS A TABLECLOTH!!”

Everypony is staring at them now and all Apple Bloom can squeak is, “I didn’t know” Jackson is taken aback by this when he saw it happen he had forgotten nopony knew what the flag ment and quickly became ashamed of how he reacted.

Jackson kneeled down in front of Apple Bloom and said in a soft voice, “I'm sorry I yelled at you I forgot no one knew about it”

Apple Bloom stops trembling when she sees the look in Jacksons eyes seeing that he is truely sorry for yelling at her she quickly goes over to the table grabs the flag and hands it back to Jackson saying, “I’m sorry for what I did I should've asked first.”

“It’s not your fault Apple Bloom you didn't know just ask us before you take something out of our packs again it could be dangerous”. Apple Bloom nods her head and Applejack with a relieved smile on her face walks over.

“So thats the flag that represents the country you come from”, Applejack says as she studies the flag. “What do the stars stand for?”, she asks.

Jackson responds, “Each star represents a state that turned against the union and became part of the C.S.A. The states are South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Louisiana, Virginia, and Arkansas.”

Applejack takes the flag and heads towards the barn causing Jackson to ask, “What are you doing with it?” in a half panicked voice.

Applejack says, “Relax if this flag is that important to you it might as well be put up and I think theres an old flagpole in the barn that we can use to put it up.”

Jackson smiles and says, “Thanks Applejack it means alot”.
“Not a problem sugar cube”, responds Applejack. She continues to the barn and comes out with a small flagpole that she continues to put the flag on and raise it. Jackson, Nathan, and George salute the flag as it goes up. after it is done they continue to make sure everypony has food before they start eating and Jackson, Nathan, and George end up sitting with Apple Bloom, Twilight, and Applejack.

They are allowed to start eating now that everyone is served but just as Twilight was about to start eating they notice the three humans have the heads down cast their hands together and they were speaking in low tones. Twilight tries to ask them what they are doing but they keep ignoring her. Twilight nudges Applejack and asks, “What are they doing?”

Applejack responds, “I don’t rightly know but that is some strange behavior there”.

They continued to stare until the humans straightened up and looked at them and asked, “What?”

Applejack says, “Me and Twilight was just wondering what were y’all doing?”

“What we were just praying?”, says Jackson

“What's praying?”, Twilight asked enthusiastically.

“It’s where we talk to God and give thanks for what he has done for us, for asking for forgiveness of our sins and asking for a blessing on the food.”, Jackson said simply.

“You have a whole religion how exciting I have so many questions for you”, Twilight squealed.

“It would take longer to explain it than the time we have now but I could lend you the Bible in my pack it's what our religion is based around just treat it with the upmost respect I can't tell you how much it means to me.”

“Don’t worry I will treat it with the utmost respect like it was from the Canterlot Library”, Twilight said. Over dinner they discussed many topics but the main thing was Twilight getting Jackson to agree to teach her about the religion she found out was called Christianity. Eventually the reunion ran down and it started to get late so the family members started to say their goodbyes and heading back to wherever they came from. Jackson, George, and Nathan were about to turn in for the night after helping clean up all the things from that days events before it struck him and he ran back to Twilight and said, “You aren't going to watch us sleep again are you?”

“No not at all I respect your privacy but I will be checking up on you tomorrow”. Jackson accepted this answer and went back over to George and Nathan.

Nathan said, “You don’t trust her answer do you?”

Jackson responded, “Nope”.

George said, “Guard duty again tonight?”

Jackson said, “Yep”. They continued up the stairs and into the room but not before saying goodnight to Applejack, Big Mac, Apple Bloom, and Granny Smith while giving
Nathan the first guard shift of the night.