Sweetie Belle's Hot Chocolate Adventure

Chapter Two: Where the fun begins

The story so far…

In her last adventure, Sweetie Belle discovered the recipe of hot chocolate. Growing an unstoppable craving, she sets off to find ingredients of the prized drink. However, she is being watched…

“I could of… sworn that I was at least halfway there”, said Sweetie Belle as she wearingly crossed the Grassy Desert.

“I… just have no absolute idea where I am!” said Sweetie Belle checking the map.

On her journey, Sweetie Belle went through many places, such as Appleloosa and the Everfree. Now, she was in the Grassy Desert, an uncharted desert known for its water-leeching grass. The Grassy Desert was indeed rich with vegetation (even if that is only one species), but the place was unbearably hot, and the water in the desert was either evaporated, or it was mercilessly absorbed by the grass roots.

Every step Sweetie Belle took was one step towards dehydration. The sun’s heat bored through practically everything she could see. The monstrous grass sucked the water out of practically everything in the desert. The grass would pull on her hooves and vacuum up the sweat from her. Due to this, Sweetie Belle was thirsty, fatigued, and slow. At that level of thirst, she even had trouble speaking or raising her head. With great difficulty, she raised her head to see the bright sun. Then, she suddenly felt as if a whoosh of flame went right through her.

“Well…. I… I…” sighed the little unicorn as she fell unconsciously onto the grassy plain.

“It’s already lunchtime and there isn’t a trace of Sweetie Belle”, said Scootaloo.

“We should go ask Rarity. Maybe Sweetie Belle’s sick or somethin’”

While the two fillies were chatting, Rarity rushed frantically to them.

“Have you two seen Sweetie Belle? I haven’t seen her this morning!” said Rarity.

“Don’t know. We were gonna ask ya that”, replied Applebloom, “I did see this in her bedroom.”

Applebloom reached into a small bag and grabbed out a tiny note. She gave it to Rarity.

“Your Soul Is Mine”, read Rarity.

“This is an uhh… nice note, but how would something like this help us in our current situation?” asked Rarity.

Applebloom suddenly whipped out a chart.

“HEEEEADS UP! GOOD! NOW REMEMBER AT ALL TIMES YOUR CURRENT MISSION!”

“YOU! SOLDIER! WHAT IS OUR CURRENT PLAN?” lectured Applebloom while she pointed at Scootaloo.

“Uhh, we were going to get Sweetie Belle”, answered Scootaloo.

“WRONG! YOUR CURRENT OBJECTIVE IS TO SABOTAGE KFS!”

“NOW WHAT ABOUT YOU?”

“Weren’t we going to get Sweetie Belle? Sigh, at this rate, I won’t be able to finish the next set of dresses!”

“SILENCE! YOUR OBJECTIVE IS TO BUY FOUR BAGS OF JET-PUFFED MARSHMALLOWS!”

“Heeeey girls! It’s time to continue school!” called Cheerilee.

“SILENCE! HEADS UP! WHAT IS YOUR CURRENT OBJECTIVE?”

“Umm… what?” asked Cheerilee.

“YOUR CURRENT OBJECTIVE IS TO- wait a minute, WHAT’S THAT?”

Applebloom grabs a sheet of paper from Cheerilee and reads it.

“Change of plans. Your objective is to CONFESS TO YOUR BOYFRIEND!”

Cheerilee blushes and then snatches the piece of paper away from Applebloom.

“Why are you doing this anyway?” asked Cheerilee.

“Saving Sweetie Belle. Hater.” replied Applebloom.

“From what?” asked Cheerilee.

“All I must say, is that will be a long story, long enough to contain at least 8 chapters with at least 3000 words in each.” lectured Applebloom.

Slowly, Sweetie Belle’s vision cleared up. She looked at the green things that were sucking at her face. Sadly, it was the demonic grass. She tried to lift her head up, but the grass pinned her head to the ground. Reluctantly, she opened her jaw and then ripped a patch of grass of the ground.

PSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHT!

A powerful blast of water just sprayed onto her face, like an overpowered water hose. Sweetie Belle liked it, even if the blast of water was painful. She looked down to try to find any water left from the blast, but it was gone. There was no trace of water, not even dew.

“Where did all that water go?” she wondered.

As she got up, Sweetie Belle noticed something she did not see before. A small shack, with a large sign that was advertising free water, was what she saw. Even if her moral compass made her feel a little suspicious, she knew it was her only hope.
“Free water!” shouted Sweetie Belle as she ran towards the hut.

“Have ya ever heard, of a terrible beast that lurks in the Everfree Forest? Yes, not that many ponies know about this monster. It has said to have brought many ponies down, with it’s raging might, and taken down many social gatherings. It is also said that the spirit of the beast is in someponies as we speak. It knows where we are. It knows where we will go. IT IS THE TROLLFACE AND IT’S COMING FOR YOU!” said Applebloom.

“Applebloom. Cut it out.” said Scootaloo.

“Oh really?” said Applebloom.

“BLARGHLARGHLAHGLRLALAABLRHLARNLARHLBRBLARHGH!” yelled out Applebloom wearing a Trollface mask.

“KFS? Really?” asked Scootaloo.

“KFS indeed!” replied Applebloom.

“So basically, you’re asking me to sabotage your own restaurant”, explained Scootaloo.

“Now here’s mah plan”

“Sweetie Belle could have wandered out of Ponyville, preferably to the South, becuz’ there’s hoofprints there. We will use the KFS Bunsen burner that Scoot will get and we will also use the Jet-puffed marshmallows.”

“Applebloom, if this is one of your silly tricks I’m not going to participate”, said Rarity.

“Ah’m being serious this time.”

Sweetie Belle opened the door of the hut, but she was not greeted by anypony. There wasn’t a pony in sight. She saw several large barrels of water neatly stacked near a sign that said, “FREE WATER.” The little unicorn walked up to one of the barrels and looked for a cup. She found some mugs piled up in a corner of the room. Taking one of the mugs, she poured water from the barrels into it. Drinking the cup, she found something strange on her flank. A red dot stood there, a very tiny dot that did not wiggle. Suddenly, a dart shot right onto where the dot was, making Sweetie Belle feel lightheaded.
“I… feel…. Sleepy….” thought the little pony as she drifted to sleep.

Feeling quite annoyed from her failed harvest, Applejack went into to the town square for a little fresh air. She had expected the normal Ponyville town buzz, but instead, she saw a huge bunch of ponies, all focusing on the road.

“Whatcha all-“

“SHHH!” shushed a nearby pony.

Applejack contemplated at the unusual crowd of silent ponies. What on Equestria were they doing? She thought hard, but she saw a blue pegasus with a rainbow mane and tail, which disrupted her thoughts. The orange pony waved for Rainbow Dash, in an attempt to get the pegasus’s attention from the crowd. After some minutes, Dash noticed an orange earth pony trying to catch her attention. Recognizing it as Applejack, she hovered above the crowd and flew to Applejack.

“Hey Applejack,” she whispered, “What’s going on?”

“Ah don’t know. Ah was about to ask you that.”

“All these ponies seem like they’re expecting somepony to come from the road. And I doubt that it would be friendly.”

“Ah think it had to do something with the visit from the Princesses. Applebloom told me something ‘bout it.”

“Well I’m not going wait here and let them backstab us! I’m going over there, and I will beat up those lousy guys!”

Rainbow Dash ascended up and did some flying tricks.

“SHHH! Ah don’t really want to disturb them, they’re too concentrated.”

“You’re right, Applejack,” said the blue pegasus as she descended back onto the ground.

A brown pegasus in the crowd stood up higher than the others, and said,” It is time.”

All the ponies stood upright and ready, for whatever that was coming their way. Applejack and Dash were still contemplating on this weird mess. Then the ponies prepared their barricades and loaded what appeared to be weapons. Soon, the noise of chugging accompanied with some steam, which got louder and louder. Then the ground started to rumble heavily. AJ and RD did not have any assurance from the ponies, whose faces were getting looks that are more determined.

Then, right out from the southwest horizon, came a huge bolt of fire that struck the barricades and vaporized them in an instant. Over the horizon, came huge, horrible machines with a pipe extending from the top. They had mean and large spikes covering the hull of these machines. They also had steel-lined glass cockpits that protected the pilot ponies from anything that the bulletproof glass could withstand. There were about seven of these monsters, approaching Ponyville at an abnormally high speed. Soon, these war machines halted near the southwestern gates.

“What. Is. That. Thing.” asked Scootaloo.

“That is a sexually transmitted disease”, replied Applebloom.

“…No.” said Scootaloo.

Sweetie Belle woke up (again) to find herself in a dark room. It wasn’t much interesting, because all she could see was the lamp above her head and a (seemingly) black void. She noticed that she was pinned to the ground with hoof restraints when she tried to walk.

“Is the subject awake?”

“Yes, it’s a unicorn filly.”

“WHAT’S A FILLY DOING IN UNCHARTED AREAS?!?”

“We just found the filly travelling the desert, sir.”

“Enough with this nonsense! Next time, bring me a suitable test subject!”

While she was listening in the conversation, she felt another dart hit her. Once again, (why do I keep on saying that?) she fell asleep.

“FUDGE! Ah’ll keep the thing busy!” yelled Applebloom.

Applebloom approached the tanks while Applejack wasn’t looking.

“Hey look at me! Look at me! LOOK AT ME!”

A cockpit opened and a white pegasus came out.

“WHAT THE **** DO YOU WANT?!?!”

“Ah just wanted to say hi”, said Applebloom with puppy eyes.

A second later, Scootaloo saw Applebloom soaring over the houses.

“Sigh, Applebloom always fails, doesn’t she”, thought Scootaloo.

Rainbow Dash approached the tanks.

“HEY! What are you doing here with all these tanks?” called out RD.

“We were just wondering if you had any eggs. You see, we’re making cookies”, replied the white pony.

RD stood in silence for a few seconds, and then called out, “HEY! Does anyone have eggs? We need some eggs here!”

The town went abuzz as ponies asked one another for the eggs. Each one was asking somepony else if they had eggs, making a huge commotion.

“I have eggs! Here are the eggs!” yelled out Derpy as she flew over the crowd with a basket of eggs in her mouth.

Derpy landed in front of Rainbow Dash and placed the basket on the ground.

“Here are two dozens of fresh golden eggs!” said Derpy.

“Derpy. The reason why they’re golden is because you crushed them”, responded RD.

“Oh. Those eggs did seem a bit weirdly colored”, wondered Derpy.

Sweetie Belle, still confused from the earlier events, woke up in the same water shack that she fell asleep in. Everything felt normal again, as if she just awoke from a nightmarish dream. Despite what had happened earlier, she decided to ignore it and continue. A whoosh of heat greeted her as she continued her trek among the endless grasses.

This desert is almost like it keeps expanding… But I will find the chocolate!

The mysterious ponies that arrived in tanks had settled in Ponyville until the citizens could fetch up an adequate amount of chicken eggs. And by “adequate amount”, they had wanted a few thousand eggs.

“Hurry up, you country bumpkins! We don’t have all day to deliver these eggs. So move it!”

“Don’t we need to get the eggs, Applebloom?” asked Scootaloo.

“Forget that. Did ya get the Bunsen burner?”

“Yup. What about Rarity?” asked Scootaloo.

“I don’t know what you’re thinking, but I would rather do this than gathering eggs.” said Rarity.

“Alrighty, we have the engine, the fuel, and now the rocket”, said Applebloom.

Applebloom stuffed the marshmallows in the Bunsen burner, which she stuffed in an empty rocket shell.

“Alrighty, we’re ready to blast off!” yelled Applebloom.

Applebloom tied herself and Scootaloo to the rocket and then lit up the burner with a match.

“Applebloom, I always knew you were crazy, but I didn’t know you were insane! Are you trying to get us killed?!?” panicked Scootaloo.

“This is how cool guys do it!” said Applebloom as she put on a pair of sunglasses.

“BLAST OFF!” yelled Applebloom.

BOOOOM! Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh!

Sweetie Belle still walks the seemingly endless Grassy Desert, following her craving at will. Meanwhile, at Ponyville, mysterious tanks showed up, forcing the citizens to get them eggs. When Applebloom and Scootaloo launch off in a makeshift rocket, what will happen next? Find out in the next chapter of Sweetie Belle’s Hot Chocolate Adventure!