Chapters Chapter One- A New Friend
Sweetie Snail:
Chapter 1- A New Friend:
“Okay class, remember that your assignments are due by Friday this week! Oh, and don’t forget that show and tell is tomorrow okay!” Ms. Cheerilee shouts out to her class. They could care less, and would rather get home as quick as they could to play their video games, and do other non-productive activities.
“So you wanna hang with us back at the tree house Sweetie Belle?” Scootaloo asked.
“Yeah, we’re even gonna try ta see if we can get our cutie marks in spelunkin! Won’t that be fun?!” Applebloom added.
“Nah, I’m going to see if Rarity would like any help with something.” Sweetie Belle replied, as she walked the opposite way of the other two crusaders.
“Uh…doesn’t she normally not want your help on things?”
“Yeah, she don’t even like you to help her either, from what you told us.” Applebloom adds again.
“I know, but maybe this time will be different, maybe after that Sisterhooves Social event that happened just a couple of days ago, maybe she’ll realize what she needs to do.” Sweetie Belle replied once again, still walking her way back to her sister’s boutique.
“Okay then, see ya later alligator!” Applebloom waved back to her smiling. Sweetie Belle watches as they both zoom off on Scootaloo’s scooter, and her mad scooter skills down a trail that led to their treehouse.
“Well, off you go Sweetie Belle, let’s just see…what the?” she then stops herself completely, and faces towards a log her eyes just so happened to glance over at.
She was stopped by what appeared to be a snail on the log. She momentarily even forgot what it even was.
“Ooh, cool! Let’s see here, what are these things…oh yeah, it’s a snail!” she smiled big towards the slow moving blob with a shell, and with a little high-pitched crack in her voice. It looked back at her slowly, then back in front of itself as it continued its incredible odyssey across the log.
“I bet you’re tired, maybe that’s why you’re so slow?” Sweetie Belle does not hesitate, as she tries to grab the snail, but its slimy film makes her jerk away from it.
“Ewwww, gross!” she shakes her hoof a little, but wiping the slime off of her hoof thereafter.
“Fine, I guess you getting onto my hoof by yourself shouldn’t be that bad, come on little guy, don’t be shy.” She gets at the end of the log, as she hen begins to wait minute after passing minute for the snail to arrive at the end of the log.
Over half an hour had passed, and she was still sitting there in the exact same spot, waiting for her new friend to get to her.
“Oh…my…gosh! Dumb snail, get over here already!” she check back up at the top of the log, and sees it was now only an inch or two away from her.
“That’s it, just a little further…” she mumbled to herself, realizing it then started to change direction, and takes a sharp right instead.
“Okay, that’s it mister.” She says frustrated.
Without delay and no remorse, she grabs the snail once again, but the snail quickly heads inside of its shell.
“You’re coming home with me little guy. Hmm…what should I name you?” Sweetie Belle pondered, as she was now walking with three legs as one of her front ones was carrying the harmless mollusk.
She gasped just as she arrived at her sister’s boutique.
“I got it, the perfect name! I’m going to call you…Snaily!” her eyes gleamed largely from the suns reflection as the genius name she had just thought up.
“Rarity, Rarity! I got a new friend, look!”
“That’s wonderful Sweetie Belle, who could this new friend of yours- Waaah!” Rarity jumped back about half a foot after turning around to expect something with four legs and a mane. What she got was anything but that.
“W-what is that thing?” her hoof shaking a little as she pointed towards it.
“His name is Snaily, he’s my new friend! I’m even going to bring him to show and tell tomorrow! Isn’t he cool?” Sweetie Bell stuck it closer to her sister, Causing Rarity to squirm.
“Eh-he-he…yes…of course…friend…your friend…not mine…now then darling…PLEASE GET RID OF THIS THING!”
“It’s just a snail Rarity, calm down!” Sweetie Belle raised her voice over her sister’s.
“Sweetie Belle I know how much this…uh…”
“Snaily.”
“Er, right…this well…Snaily means to you, but this household is no appropriate environment for a creature to reside in.
“A what?”
“That thing can’t live here with us is what I’m trying to say.”
“Aw come on, why not Rarity? You never let me have anything for myself! I promise I’ll keep an eye on him. I’ll even make sure he doesn’t run off.” Silence then falls between Sweetie Belle and Rarity, as they both look back at the snail. The snail then looks back up at Sweetie Belle, then slowly back to Rarity.
“It’s aware?!”
“I guess so, do snails do that?”
“Not from what I remember in my school years? Normally they just do what they do best…put slime and filth over everything they touch. But this doesn’t look like anything I’ve ever seen from a snail?” Rarity began having thoughts of the snail slithering its way across everything she worked on. Though it’d take half of its life away in the first place if it did that.
Rarity couldn’t believe she was saying this, but she took in a deep breath, and faced back to her little sister.
“Okay Sweetie Belle…do you promise to keep that thing with you everywhere you go?”
“I don’t know if that would be a good idea Rarity.” Sweetie Belle replied feeling iffy about that situation.
“Well I do not under any circumstances want that thing to be in my designing room, understand?”
“Oh thank you so much! You really are the best sister ever!” Sweetie Belle hugged Rarity. However with the two of them not realizing, the snail slowly made its way onto Rarity’s mane, and slowly slithered inside of the jungle of hair.
“Okay now darling, you can let go now, I have a new design I’m working on for this season. So why don’t you go out and play with your friends, hm?” Rarity begins walking up the stairs, but stopped by her sisters voice once again.
“Ahh! It’s loose! Where’s Snaily?!” she panicked in her usual high-pitched squeaky voice.
“Oh I’m sure- IT’S WHAT YOU SAY?!” Rarity freaks out, hoping it wasn’t on her own self.
Rarity being the drama queen she was quickly made her way to Sweetie Belle wanting her to check since she herself was too afraid to check.
“Quick Sweetie Belle, is it on me?!” she tip-toed rapidly in place.
“No, I don’t see Snaily anywhere? Where is he? You gotta help me find him!”
“Good heavens would you look at the time, I must be off, I’m behind schedule as it is.” Rarity ignored her sisters’ statement, and galloped her way upstairs and closed the door behind her.
“Aw come on?! It’s just a snail, geez!” Sweetie Belle shouted back to her from the bottom of the stairs, her eyes still scanning the floor for her slimy new friend.
“Opal, can you help me find Snaily?”
The cat said nothing, and continued walking past her.
“Hmph…dumb cat, she just doesn’t know what it feels like to have a snail as a friend.” She says to herself.
The minutes passed on, atleast a good ten minutes or so before Sweetie Belle heard her sister scream at the top of her lungs upstairs.
“AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!”
“Well…she found him atleast.” Sweetie Belle said to herself, before making her way up to her sister’s design room hastefully before Rarity did something about it herself.
Opening the door, Rarity was hanging on a chandelier, looking down at Snaily. It simply crawled around her sewing machine, doing nothing productive other than that.
“You found him! Thanks a lot Ra-”
“GET RID OF IT NOW! It will hurt my poor baby if it does that long enough!”
Sweetie Belle rolled her eyes at the preposterous comment she just made, and proceeded over to her new friend.
“Come on Snaily, let’s go hang out somewhere else.” She extended her hoof over to the snail, but it honestly could care less.
“Snaily! Lets go!” she said again commandingly to the snail, it still continuing on its own course.
“You stupid snail, I’ll throw you out the window!” As soon as she finished her sentence just then, it looked at her and quickly got onto her hoof.
“That’s better, now let’s get going.”
“Er…whaaa? That, snail just went…how fast?!” Rarity tells herself, mildly pointing her hoof down to her little sister, and the creature from the black lagoon that was taking it easy with her as they both left the room below her.
“That…thing…is...oh confound it…I need a vacation.” She facehoofed herself , before realizing she was still hanging from her chandelier.
“Oh…right.” she added.
Chapter Two- Show and Tell
Sweetie Snail:
Chapter 2- Show and Tell:
Everypony had come back in from recess, and they were all eager to show their things for show and tell…even Sweetie Belle.
“So who’s this new friend you’re talkin bout showin us? I can’t wait to meet him, he sounds really cool from what ya told me and Scoots.” Said Applebloom in an eager tone of her voice.
“Oh he’s so cool! He was even nice enough to wake me up this morning. If it weren’t for him, I would have been late to school.” Replied Sweetie Belle.
“Oh wow, I wish I had somepony like that to wake me up.” Scootaloo added.
The chatter in the classroom died back down as they saw Cheerilee walk back into the room.
“Okay class, I think you all know what time it is now, so I will call each one of you up in an order I see fit. Let’s see here…” Cheerilee’s green eyes began to scan the classroom to get it started with a good intro to kick things off with.
“Featherweight, what about you? Seems like you and your older brother Snowflake worked on a little something from what you told me?”
Featherweight merely nodded, and made his way up to the front of the classroom.
“This better not be another one of those protein shake recipes your brother gave us last time.” Diamond Tiara said, putting up one of her hooves to lean on with her cheek.
Making the time go by, Sweetie Belle out of view from her friends, carefully brought out Snaily hidden within her desk.
“I just hope you can do something amazing for once, rather than just sit there and crawl around.” She whispered to it.
“Did you say something Sweetie Belle?” Scootaloo asked her friend curiously.
“Um…uh…wonderful weather we’re having?” she shrugged back to Scootaloo with an awkward looking smile.
“Sweetie Belle? It’s your turn now.” Cheerilee spoke up from the classroom’s mild applause from Button Mash’s new videogame he just got in the mail yesterday.
Quick as a flash she hides it in her mane, and makes her way up to the front of the classroom. Standing in front of the chalkboard, the class notices her remove something from her mane, still managing to keep it out of sight from Cheerilee.
“Oh man, what did I get myself into today?” Sweetie Belle thought to herself nervously, as she turned back around to the class with an awkward smile.
“Well? What are you waiting for Sweetie Belle? Go right ahead.” Cheerilee added.
“Um…well…this is, uh…”
“Don’t tell me your friend is invisible?” Diamond Tiara spoke up, causing a few of the classmates to snicker.
“That’s enough from you class…go on Sweetie Belle…I’d love to see what you have what for us.” Cheerilee assured her again.
“Okay then, if you insist…” Cheerilee then brings out the snail to show to the class, causing the colts to look at it in interest. The fillies however obviously “bleh” at the sight.
“G-ross Sweetie Belle, a snail?!” said Diamond Tiara, looking at the snail disgusted.
“Yeah, a snail?!” Silver Spoon added along with her.
“Um…is this er, your new friend Sweetie Belle, he-he?” Cheerilee smiled awkwardly, thinking it was strange for somepony like her to have such an odd friend.
“You know what, go ahead everypony, laugh! Laugh that I have a cool friend and you don’t! His name is Snaily though, and he’s the coolest…” Sweetie Belle then looks back at her friends for their reactions after that “coolest” term slipped out from her tongue.
“I mean he’s an awesome friend. He even woke me up this morning, if it weren’t for him, I would’ve been late to school today.” Sweetie Belle added, the classroom however seemed to now appear a bit interested in this simple snail after they heard it woke her up to get her to school.
“What? It…got you to school on time?” said Rumble in the back of the classroom.
“You bet, he even fixed me breakfast while my sister Rarity was still asleep.” She replied with a bit of a smile, thinking she was now starting to get the class intrigued by such a simple form of life.
“Um, Sweetie Belle…it’s just a snail though? How did it manage to fix your breakfast? It’s impossible for snails to do that.” said Cheerilee.
“Oh, but no this one Ms. Cheerilee…this one can do things you can’t even imagine…watch!”
Sweetie Belle then sets the snail down on the classroom floor to do something for her.
“Snaily, do a backflip!”
The snail ignored her completely, and proceeded to keep slithering along the floor in front of it.
“Booooring!” said Diamond Tiara.
“Diamond Tiara, I’m not going to repeat myself to the class.” Cheerilee hearing her, gave her a look of authority.
“Yes Ms. Cheerilee…my bad.”
“Thank you…Sweetie Belle, please continue with your, uh…friend.”
“Yes ma’am! I even saved the best for last…everypony leave the classroom!”
“Sweetie Belle, what are you talking abo-”
“I just want to try and see if that breakfast prepared for me was really Snaily or not. If he can make breakfast…” Sweetie Belle then walks to a potted plant and knocks it over.
“Sweetie Belle, stop this madness right this instant!” Cheerilee raised her voice at her.
“I’m actually kinda interested myself.”
“Me too Ms. Cheerilee!”
“Me three!”
Voice after voice in the classroom spoke up, mainly the colts though.
“Alright alright, calm down class, calm down.” Cheerilee sighed, as she gestured over to the exit of the building. She felt like Sweetie Belle had lost her marbles, as did Scootaloo and Applebloom too.
“This better be true you know, I’d hate for you to get in trouble after all.” Diamond Tiara walked by flipping her mane and snickering like she owned the place.
Sweetie Belle looks back at the snail sitting there in front of the chalkboard, as she makes her way out of the school building with the rest of the class.
“Come on Snaily, you made breakfast for me for goodness sakes. Rarity was asleep, there’s no way she made that and managed to sneak by me or something like that? I didn’t see her anyways.” She thought to herself, as the door shuts.
“Okay now Sweetie Belle, I’m going to have a talk with your sister dragging us out here like this. You have truly lost your mind young lady.” Said Cheerilee.
“Yeah…hate ta say it, but Ms. Cheerilee’s right ya know Sweetie Belle?” Applebloom adds.
“Yeah…same here.” Scootaloo added also.
“No everypony, I’m serious! Snaily really-”
She and the rest of the class was then startled by the sound of loud noises coming from within the building. It sounded like a variety of noises, like a giant cleaning machine or something was in there.
“Um, um…okay class, just stay together okay?” Cheerilee rose her voice assuring the class everything would be okay.
“AAAAAHHHH!!!! WE’RE GONNA DIIIIIE!” Button Mash yelled over the huge amounts of noise coming in within, as he tried to make a run for it, but stopped by Cheerilee grabbing ahold of him.
The noise then stopped, and most of the class was still a bit frightened by the sudden loud noises coming within the school building.
“Um…is it okay ta head back inside?” Applebloom asked.
“I suppose…but stay close children.”
Cheerilee was the first one to make her way back into class, and she was brought speechless at the sight presented in front of her.
“By Celestia…just…how did this…oh my…”
The rest of the class hearing what Cheerilee said then set off their curiosity, as they proceeded to then follow right behind her. They too were then stopped at the amazing site.
“Um…am I dead?” Button Mash spoke from the crowd.
The site was truly a physics-defying site to behold. Cheerilee hadn’t seen the classroom look this clean since her very first day of teaching here.
The CMC’s jaws dropped to the floor, for they couldn’t believe it either. Cheerilee’s desk along with the rest of the student desks were cleaned and shined to perfection. The windows sparkled, and appeared to even rival that of the beautiful windows seen within the royal castle in Canterlot. The wooden floor appeared to be mildly waxed and cleaned too. Out of all of this though, the broken potted plant was nowhere to be found but the garbage can. The chalkboard looked like it was brand new, not even a minuscule marking of chalk remained on it.
“Erm…Sweetie…Belle…” Cheerilee asked almost on the verge of speechless. Her eyes as big as dinner plates, her hoof pointed towards the site in a limp fashion, as her eyes were glued to the beautiful classroom.
“Yes Ms. Cheerilee?”
“You…er…have an, amazing…friend.”
Sweetie Belle walked further into the room, as the rest of them followed.
“Snaily! You did this didn’t you?!”
The snail obviously looking like he had remained in the same place ever since it was placed onto the floor.
“I…I think I need to go home now.” Cheerilee said, as she took her seat as her desk, still not believing what just happened.
“I think I am dead after all.” Button Mash added.
“Okay, class…um…bring out your history books to…page two-eleven…please.” Cheerilee spoke up, still trying to take everything in at the moment.
“I knew you could do it Snaily.” Said Sweetie Belle, as she put it back in her desk.
“S-some s-snail…” Scootaloo muttered out.
“Y-ya don’t say?” Applebloom replied, her face showing denial, and pure shock and awe at the site in front of her. Though she certainly wasn’t the only one feeling this way, but rather the entire class wouldn’t believe the site they saw.
Chapter Three- Skepticism
Sweetie Snail:
Chapter 3- Skepticism:
The school’s bell had given off that sound of signifying school was out. All of Cheerilee’s students always seemed to run out the front door and back home like a fire had broken out inside the building.
The CMC’s ran out together and stopped each other at the end of the road.
“Wait a second ya’ll…where are we headin anyways?” Applebloom wondered, realizing their own excitement for getting out of school on quite a day had made them temporarily mindless.
“How about we head back to the clubhouse? I really wanna hang out with this thing!” said Scootaloo happily.
“Uh…the snail?” Applebloom raised an eyebrow.
“Yeah, totally! After he did all of that stuff at show-and-tell today and all, this snail’s gotta be the coolest snail in Equestria!”
“But…that show-and-tell thingy coulda just been setup?”
“It wasn’t a setup Applebloom, Snaily really did do all of that stuff! How else would I have gotten-” Sweetie Belle states honestly, but being interrupted by Applebloom.
“Yeah, yeah I know…how else would ya have gotten ta school on time this morning. Yeah, we heard ya fer the fourth time today.”
“Aw come on?! That’s ridiculous Applebloom, you have any idea how ridiculous that sounds?”
“You have any idea how ridiculous it sounds fer a snail ta shine and clean a school ta perfection in seconds?”
“Well it’s not like ponies could do it either.” Sweetie Belle looked back at her with a stink eye.
“Well how bout-”
“Come on you two, let’s just take it easy already, okay? I don’t know about you buuuut…” Scootaloo then snatches up the snail from Sweetie Belle’s hoof, and makes her way back to it towards the clubhouse.
“Hey! Give back Snaily!” Sweetie Belle galloped after her.
“Wait up both of ya!” Applebloom was now in an effort to catch up to Sweetie Belle.
As the three of them reached their clubhouse, they all sat around the snail on the rug in the middle the room. No doubt in the slightest it was a true snail that seemed to boggle their minds.
“So Sweetie Belle, where did you get him?”
“I just found him on a log yesterday when school got out is all, why?”
“Just curious…cause I sure want one of these!” Scootaloo continued looking at the snail in front of her as it slithered across their rug in the middle of the room.
“I tell ya, this is nothin but a-”
“IT’S NOT FAKE!” Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle exclaimed back to Applebloom synchronized.
“Well, what will it take to prove it to you then Applebloom?”
“How about a little test then.” Applebloom then looked off with that face of her thinking to herself. That face they knew all too well.
“It has something to do with the farm, doesn’t it?” Sweetie Belle’s face looked a bit annoyed now, realizing Applebloom was tough to convince on this.
“M-hm…you betcha!”
“Snaily’s got this in the bag, right Snaily?” Scootaloo looks back down to the snail, and assumes it agrees with her.
“See? It even agreed with me.”
“Snails can’t talk fer goodness sakes.” Applebloom feeling a bit annoyed now by this snail.
“Well uh…I bet you this one can…can it talk Sweetie Belle?” Scootaloo’s mind was now intrigued with questions over a mere mollusk.
“How the heck would I know?” Sweetie Belle shrugged, as her voice cracked slightly.
The three of them finally made their way over to Sweet Apple Acres. Applejack was nowhere in sight, Big Macintosh was currently working on adding a couple of new features to the barn. Poor old Granny Smith was merely doing what she did best…taking a nap in their house on her favorite rocking chair. However, a distinct soun of AJ was heard out from the thick lush green field of apple trees. Nothing but a loud thud was heard afterward, as the apples fell from the trees.
“Oh, there ya are Applebloom! How did school go?” Applejack asked, as she wiped the sweat from her forehead.
“Very weird if ya ask me. This snail that Sweetie Belle’s got, apparently cleaned our entire classroom perfectly! Though I think it’s just a setup or a very good trick she did.”
Applejack simply stood there and laughed out loud at the alleged ridiculous remark about a mere snail pulling off such a task.
“You’re kiddin right? Ain’t no way a snail can do that…they’re just snails, that’s all.” AJ chuckled.
“Yeah, but this snail is no ordinary snail…it couldn’t be!” Scootaloo intervened.
“What she said! It even made me breakfast this morning!” Sweetie Belle added.
“Well y’all keep believin what y’all wanna believe. I need ta get goin…have fun with whatever it is yer doin Applebloom!” Applejack was then seen galloping off to the other side of the farm to deal with some other trees that needed apple bucking.
The CMC’s then made their way into the barn, and noticed Big Macintosh had a pile of wooden planks in a pile. There was a box of nails located right next to him, and a can of red paint to match with the exterior look of the barn.
“Whatcha doin Big Mac?” Applebloom asked.
He showed her the blueprint of another portion of the second floor that was going to be added to it.
“Oh, so you’re gonna add somethin to tha barn?
“Eeyup.” He nodded with a small grin on his face.
“Wait a second now…I got it you two!” Applebloom quickly turned back around to Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle
“Oh boy, I think I know where this is going.”
“Yep…Snaily’s gonna build what Big Mac’s about ta start on. He’s got everything he needs, so all I need ya ta do Sweetie Belle is do whatever it is ya do with Snaily ta make him become a…uh…miracle snail I suppose you could call it.”
“How the heck would I know how to make him do the stuff? All I know is to just leave him completely alone I’d think. Cause that’s how it pulled that off at show-and-tell I think?”
“Oh, well then I’ll get Big Mac outta here with us, and you just put Snaily with all of this supplies.”
“I don’t know Applebloom… it might not-”
“Then I suppose what tha snail did wasn’t real then.”
“Oh…oh alright, fine!” Sweetie Belle made her way next to Big Macintosh, and placed the snail on the pile of cleanly cut lumber.
“Come on Big Mac, we need ta get outta here quick!” Applebloom grabbed her big brother and proceeds to drag him out of the barn with the Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle right behind her.
The three of them closed the doors to the barn one by one together, and Big Macintosh was standing there like she and her friends had lost their marbles. They later on had successfully closed the doors, and all they were waiting on was the snail to break the laws of physics once again.
“What’s the meanin of this?” he asked her.
“Well you see…there’s this snail that-”
“Oh no, we forgot to give Snaily the blueprint!” Scootaloo quickly grabbed it away from Big Mac and slid it under the doorway.
Another few minutes had passed as Sweetie Belle and he friends were explaining it to Big Macintosh, who honestly didn’t believe such a ridiculous claim or accusation from them.
“Nope.” He shook his head, as he started to make his way back towards the barn.
They were all stopped however, as the ground seemed to shake a bit under their feet.
“What the?” Applebloom wondered curiously.
“Oh no…is this a…” Scootaloo stopped herself.
“EARTHQUAAAAAKE!!!” Sweetie Belle ran off to a safe spot away from any buildings.
Soon afterward, a pure flurry of loud noises could be heard coming from within the barn. Sounds of dozens or even hundreds of nails could be heard pounded into the wooden planks all at the same time. The sudden loud noises were almost deafening at the range they were to the barn as all of it happened at the same time.
“What in tarnation is goin on back there?!” Applejack wondered, galloping back to the farm as fast as she could.
A few more moments had passed, but then…it went completely silent from within the barn now.
“W-was t-that…”
“I have no idea Applebloom…” Scootaloo stayed close to the ground.
“Hey, wait a moment…where’s Big Mac?”
The three of them looked around for a moment or two, and then noticed the barn doors had been cracked open.
“Oh no! Did he get hurt?! Hang on big brother, I’m comin!”
When they made it inside, they noticed that all of the building materials were gone. Not a single nail or piece of wood could be seen from its original spot, and only the mollusk remained on the floor.
“Um…Big Mac…whatcha lookin up at? It’s nuthin bad is it?”
“N-n-n-nope…” his hoof shook at the incredible site, and his jaw dropped to the floor. Not only did the part he was going to add get added, but it was eveen improved with extra space and such too.
“Sweet Celestia and all that is good…” for the second time today now, the CMC’s faces were nothing but awestruck and in total disbelief once more.
“U-um…S-s-Sweetie…Belle?”
“Yeah?”
“I believe ya now…that Snail’s really somethin…”
“I don’t even believe it fully yet Applebloom…I think we all died or something. Maybe this is all just one big dream?” said Sweetie Belle.
“It’s gotta be…s-snails don’t do this kind of stuff?!” Applebloom replied full of shock.
Another minute or two passed by, and AJ had found the four of them inside the barn.
“There ya are! Are y’all alright? I felt a bit of shakin in tha ground?” she asked them a bit concerned but also curious as to what caused it.
“Big Mac! Woo-wee I knew you could do it! But my goodness, didn’t ya get the supplies just a half hour ago?”
“Ee…yup…” he continued staring down the incredible site of architectural perfection.
“Ya mean…you’re sayin that…you…didn’t do this?!”
“Ee…yup…”
“ By Celestia…” AJ then takes off her hat from the top of her head.
“Any of y’all know who did this so darn fast?!” Applejack faced back to the CMC’s all standing next to each other. They all then quickly pointed over at a snail that was on the ground.
“W…what…”
“Uh-huh.” The three of them nodded speaking altogether.
AJ’s eyes were now as big as dinner plates too in shock and in complete and utter disbelief. She simply slowly turned back around and steadily made her way back outside from the barn.
“I…think…I’ve been in tha heat fer too long.”
“I’m with my sister on this…I need ta lie down…” Applebloom then followed her sister AJ outside.
“I think I need to start a Snaily Fanclub right away…” Scootaloo then followed behind Applebloom in a steady pace.
“Okay Snaily…you’re starting to kind of worry me now.” Said Sweetie Belle, as she knelt down to pick up the snail and head back home. She continued making her way out of the barn in disbelief over what just happened, because two things like this seemed almost incomprehensible for somepony her age. She however though noticed Big Mac still sitting there on the floor continuing to look up at the awesome site.
“You okay Big Macintosh?”
“Eeyup.” He replied with his mouth still agape.
“I need to wake up from this…whatever it is.” Sweetie Belle says to herself. This made the third time something truly unexplainable happened, and it was whenever she was not looking and was away from Snaily. Incredible things would happen when she left him to whatever it was snails did when they were by themselves. Would they just slither around very slowly perhaps like they always do? Apparently not this one, this one has some serious issues, and it may just cause Equestria the flip upside down in its sanity.
Sweetie Snail:
Chapter 4- Slimy Hero:
“OH PLEASE SOMEPONY SAVE MY BABY!” a mare cried out in horror at the sight of her house ablaze with her baby she allegedly claimed to still be inside.
The fire department was giving the fire everything it had, and it was working, but it wasn’t good enough. Already two firepony’s went in the home and could not find the baby; they were just about to give up all hope for the foal to be saved.
“PLEASE OH PLEASE YOU GOT TO KEEP TRYING! I DON’T KNOW HOW MUCH LONGER IT WILL BE TILL-” her voice broke to shock and true horror, as her house appeared to slowly collapse on the inside. Everypony watched in shock and awe at the sight before them. The fire was really beautiful yet deadly at the same time.
When everything seemed like it was bad enough, the sounds of cracking boards and weakening foundation could be heard.
“PLEASE NO! NOT MY-” her voice interrupted once again by the traumatic event taking place in front of her. The that contained her baby could be seen from outside then give way from the ceiling, as it appeared to collapse to the floor.
“NOOOO!!!” the mare cried very hard out the house, instinctively running towards it, but stopped by a firepony preventing her from getting any closer to the blaze.
“I’m sorry ma’am, there was nothing more we could do! We tried everything to find your baby, and she could not be found anywhere in the house!”
“That’s impossible though! She was right next to my room!”
“I’m sorry ma’am…we all are.”
“NO! YOU’RE LYING TO ME YOU HEAR ME?! YOU’RE LYING!”
“Ma’am, calm down okay?! I have already told you th-”
“Sir! Look!” a firepony then called out from the crowd of others, at the sight of what appeared to be a baby safely lying on the ground next to the firewagon.
“By Celestia…” the firepony chief couldn’t believe what he was seeing. He was just at that location a few moments ago, and now her baby was safely resting on the ground right where he stood just seconds ago.
“OH THANK CELESTIA! MY BABY’S OKAY!” she then looked back at the firepony in charge of the operation, embarrassing him with a stare that caused some of his comrades to snicker from the embarrassing moment put on him.
“Um…your baby…ma’am? Eh-he-he…” he replied scratching the back of his head, followed by an awkward smile.
“Sir…um, do you have any clue why a snail is on the baby?”
“Why a what?”
“A snail sir…is on the baby. It was found on top of the blanket the baby was wrapped up in. Somepony did this…but who exactly?”
The firepony chief then looked back at the baby and saw no snail to be seen on the baby.
“I don’t see anything? Wait a second…you sure it-”
“Yes sir, no doubt it was a snail simply slithering his way across the baby…doing what snails do best I suppose.” One of the firepony’s replied.
“Then how in Equestria do you explain it gone already?! They’re not that fast?”
“What?!” the firepony then made haste back over to the baby, and was shocked at what he was seeing.
“B-but s-sir, I saw a snail, no joke…it was right here!” he pointed.
“Okay newbie…you need to lay off the cider.” The chief rolled his eyes, continuing his duties as he walked along.
“But sir.”
“It’s just your mind newblood…crazy things happen to your mind with stress like this.”
“Yes sir…of course sir.” The newbie made his way back around the wagon to bring out some extra hoses to continue dousing out the fire.
Meanwhile back at the Carousel Boutique, Sweetie Belle was bored as ever…and as usual, as she waited on her sister to finish what she was designing in her design room.
“Ugh! Come on Rarity, let’s go! It’s just one stupid dress, can’t you finish it later?” Sweetie Belle urged, as she kept watching Snaily slither on by her still eyesight ever so slowly.
“WHAT?! Don’t be so prejudice about this mere ‘dress’ Sweetie Belle. You see, this dress is being sent to Sapphire Shores herself darling…and oh! They’ll be just clamoring for my attention to produce my fashion line after this one is finished!” Rarity replied with a smile, followed by the soft sound of a quiet but yet hard working sewing machine.
Sweetie Belle rolled her eyes, as she could careless about the importance of it. Though she understood just how much it bothered Rarity for her to leave her projects unfinished.
“Sweetie Belle could you please pass the-”
“PAPER’S HERE!” a voice screamed out, since Sweetie Belle loved reading the funny comics on the paper.
But however, something really made her stop at the sight of the paper. She noticed a picture of a snail with a wagon that was fixed from its broken wheel.
“Huh?” she looked up at the title in black bold letters.
“Ponyville’s Mysterious Hero?” Sweetie Belle read this out loud to herself then looked back at Snaily.
“Hmm, let’s see here…” she proceeded to turn the page as saw it was another picture of a snail; it looked awfully similar to Snaily as well.
“Ponyville’s weird…” She thought to herself.
“What?! A mysterious new hero of Ponyville leaves a snail once again after a speechless fire rescue of an innocent foal from today’s fire.” She continues reading.
“A hero of Ponyville leaves a snail at everything miraculous that seems to happen. Though no site of the hero, the witnesses claim that the laws of physics are broken whenever these unexplainable miracles happen. They do not see it happen for themselves, but all they know is that a snail remains at nearly every single incident that has been averted the past day.”
“Laws of physics?!” Sweetie Belle looks back at her slimy friend once again, but notices he’s gone.
“What in Equestria?!” she dropped the paper, scanning her eyes every which way he could have gone.
“Wait a second…laws of physics broken…Snaily does that. Wait…a…single…second. Could Snaily…oh wow…just…whoa.” Sweetie Belle’s eyes then got as big a dinner plates at the amazing though she didn’t even want to make herself believe, but she knew it had to be true.
“SUPERSNAILY!!” She screamed out ecstatically, causing Opal to run off from the sudden outburst of noise.
“What did you say Sweetie Belle? Sorry, I’m in here finishing up.”
“I said Snaily’s a superhero!”
Awkward silence then filled the gap between them as Sweetie Belle’s huge smile sat there on her face in silence.
“Uh-huh…okay Sweetie Belle I think that Button Mash boy is getting to your head. What kind of video games do you two play together?”
“Ugh…no Rarity I’m being serious!”
“Of course you are dear, and I’m a ghost.” Rarity replied with a chuckle.
“Rarity!”
“Such tone young lady, watch it now sister!” she turned her head quickly facing Sweetie Belle standing at the doorway to her design room.
“I’m telling the truth Rarity, I’m really, really serious here! Check out today’s paper and you’ll see!”
“Hmm?” Rarity’s head titled in a bit of confusion, but also curiosity.
“Let me see that paper…” her blue eyes surfing through the whole page quickly, she thought it could have been some kind of Gabby Gums all over again.
“Sweetie Belle I’m telling you right this instant young lady! If you and your friends are planning to bring back this Gabby Gums again…it will be your undoing.” She replied with fire filling her sapphire eyes.
“What?! You’re kidding right? No we learned our lesson, this is not us. You can even head down to the printing press yourself, and they’ll tell you the same.” Sweetie Belle replied.
Rarity looked back at her sister with silence, then turned the page to quickly focus on the second page of the main article.
“Sweetie Belle…”
“Yes?”
Rarity then pulled the paper down from her face showing her blue iris’s dilated to a small size. Her face stone faced and emotionless, she couldn’t believe this article…she just couldn’t.
“Sweetie Belle…erm…again…”
“Yes? Are you even feeling okay?”
“Okay?”
“Yes.”
“Okay?!”
“Uh-huh.”
“You think I’m feeling okay?!”
“Um…okay maybe not…” Sweetie Belle took a couple of steps away from her sister’s dilated emotionless face.
“Sweetie Belle…this…this paper is…by Celestia I need to lie down.” Rarity still keeping the same face and gestured her sister to go downstairs to play or whatever.
“You just er…go…play dear. I think I’m going to lay off the double espresso for tomorrow morning.” Said Rarity, as she made her way back up to her room, and closed it to lock her bedroom door.
“I can’t believe it either but…well…” Sweetie Belle’s eyes then sparkled as she looked own at the floor beside her. She quickly turned back to see Snaily back at her side.
“You are a superhero aren’t you?!”
The snail did not care, and proceeded to slither upon her face and stop at her snout.
“Um…okayyyy…what’s that supposed to mean?” she asked Snaily once more. For a second time however, it said nothing, and proceed to journey further upon her face, eventually ending up in her mane.
“Ewww! Get out of my mane!”
Meanwhile, back in Rarity’s bedroom…
“Oh Celestia…why have you plagued me with such a life to live upon…” she said, looking up at her bedroom ceiling with a face of true shock and disbelief. Though what would you expect from a snail that defies the laws of physics? But however though, can it also defy the laws of gravity in general…and even the fabric of time itself? The answer to that intensively burning question would be………why not?
Sweetie Snail:
Chapter 5- Snail Mail:
The suns soft rays hit the chilled land, as it steadily rose above the horizon on the sleepy town of Ponyville. Mailmares and Mailponies in general were doing their morning routes on delivering packages and letters that needed to be brought to their final destinations within the hundreds or even thousands of mailboxes. There was however one pony that stood out from the rest, and that was a mailmare who went by the name of Ditzy Doo, or Derpy Hooves as some of the townsfolk called her jokingly. The adorable gray Pegasus was making her way over to Rarity’s mailbox to place a small package she had requested from a popular fashion line. It was the last house on her route at the time.
She steadily places it within the mailbox, just to make sure she doesn’t break the darn thing like last time. After completing the process in a successful manner, she turned back around facing the other mailboxes that seemed to just await her arrival. However, when she took several steps or so with her back turned from it, the package hit her in the back of the head.
“Ouch! Who do you think you…are…” she turned around to the sight of nopony around her, nopony anywhere in sight for that matter.
“Um…hello?” the gray Pegasus called out, feeling a bit worried now. She got no answer, and proceeded to pick up the pace, as that seemed quite weird and strange to her.
“Oh wait…I need to put this package back in her mail box he-he…yep.” She grabs the box and places it where it was last time…in the mailbox of course.
“Okay, now you stay right there mister box.” She said, after her wings spread out wide to take off. But once again, she was hit in the back of the head by the same box.
“Okay, what kind of joke is this?! Show yourself now!” she raised her voice to absolutely nothing from her view. But little did she know, a small snail was now on the box. Her vision caught the site of the harmless little mollusk just on the edge of the package. It slithered ever so slowly onto the brown paper surface of the small box.
“Well what do you think you’re doing all alone mister snail?” her face then began to show a grin towards the small life. The snail did absolutely nothing as usual…for now anyways.
“I got an idea, how about I take you home? My daughter loves bugs after all, I think she’d atleast love to see a snail.” She grabbed ahold of the snail, but however, her taking Snaily home would not be the case. Just as she did that, it seemed like the snail had disappeared into thin air.
“WHAT?!” her mind was absolutely speechless and truly baffled at what just happened in front of her. It was almost like the snail defied the laws of physics or something to her.
“Um…okayyyy…no more girls night out with Berry Punch and her friends. They must have made me drink some awfully strong stuff if that was just my mind.” she thought to herself, still trying to gather in her mind what had just happened right in front of her.
She let out a sigh and proceeds into the air, as Rarity’s home was the last on her mail route before she head home for today. She had the day off today, since she had worked enough hours to allow some time off of work to be with her family for part of the week.
Ditzy hummed to herself a little tune in her head she remembered when she was young, in order to pass the time on her way back home in the steady and easy flight.
“And sooo the wind blows without a- WAH!!!!” she slammed on her airbrakes, to the shock of the snail sitting there on her snout. It almost appeared as if it was looking straight at her with its eyestalks, but it was a snail?
“Um…I thought you…er…” she was confounded by speechless actions once again. She didn’t understand why or even how the snail managed to end up right on the end of her snout. It seemed to be hitching a ride with her back to her place, but she was surprisingly starting to get a little terrified of the snail.
She descended back onto the ground, and placed the snail back onto the ground.
“There you go mister snail, now I need to get home okay?” she ascends back into the crisp early morning air, and shoots back off into the original direction she was heading.
“Wow…this morning has been really weird. To think all of that weirdness coming from a snail I met outside of that mailbox? I don’t think I’ll ever understand this town sometimes.”
Finally, she had arrived back home, and trying to stay as quiet as she could. For her two girls Sparkler and Dinky were sleeping soundly inside the house.
“Ah, home…now I can finally rest easy and spend some time with my- AHH!” she yelled out in shock again, as it was the exact same snail. It sat there in front of her front door like it was waiting for her to do something else.
“What in the name of Equestria are you? You’re certainly no snail I’ve ever seen?” she crept closer and closer to the snail, but it soon after then vanished once again.
“Um…” her pupils dilated, her face full of shock. She didn’t understand if she was even in a dream or something.
“Okay Ditzy, wake up now.” She pinched herself on one of her legs, but it didn’t work. She however scanned her eyes back over her body, and to the sight of the snail on her blonde colored tail.
“What do you want with me? Goodness, this has honestly got to be a dream.” She looked away, and then back to her tail…the snail had disappeared for a third time. She began to feel actually kind of scared now, but how could a pony begin to even feel remotely scared over a mere snail. For one, she seemed to know this was no ordinary snail. Her golden yellow eyes looked every which direction she could think of to know just where that snail could end up being now. She however saw a small note left in front of her hooves.
“What the…” she picked it up, and it had some slime on the inside of the folded note.
“Ewww, what’s this all…oh forget it I’ll just see what it says.” Ditzy opened up the note, and to her surprise it was the “hero” she had heard about in her paper.
The note read:
“I am the slimy serenade of justice within this town. I have no enemies, nor friends. I am here on one behalf and one only for my race.
A great terror is devastating my mighty race, and is continuing to do so right here and now as long as you do not help me defeat this mighty foe. This foe is known as the white death…or salt in your terms. An exterminator of your kind is using salt all over your town, and destroying my mighty and once proud mollusk family. Now, we are hiding and running…well…slithering for our lives.
I have chosen you fellow pony, and another small white pony to hopefully assist me in this war effort of survival. Become my champion, and I shall reward you with great treasures you cannot possibly even begin to fathom.
Sincerely,
Stormageddon- Dark Lord of All (A.K.A: Snaily- FYI: Just call me Snaily…the other one does.)”
The note then ends, and Ditzy is literally about to lose her mind.
“I’m not eating poppy seed muffins ever again…I need to rest.” She then heads inside after unlocking the front door quietly, and places the note into one of her mail outfits’ pockets.
“Ah…bed at last…” She softly tells herself in her mind as she settles within her nice warm bed.
“MOMMY! MOMMY! MOMMY! MOMMY!” Dinky said, jumping up and down on herm mother’s bed.
A small happy toned voice sounded while her eyes were still shut. It was her youngest daughter Dinky.
“Dinky stop, I got followed by somepony, and mommy is about to lose her mind go back to bed.”
“Can you really lose your mind momma? I wanna lose mine too! I wanna be just like you!” Dinky smiled widely.
“No…go back to bed…”
“But momma, you said you wou-”
“I know I did little muffin, but a snai-…never mind, go back to bed now.”
“Okay…” Dinky lowered her head, making her way out of her mother’s bedroom.
“Celestia give me strength…I might not make it today.” Ditzy thought.
Chapter Six- Untimely Squish
Sweetie Snail:
Chapter 6- Untimely Squish:
As another three weeks passed, more and more of this mysterious hero of Ponyville continued leaving a snail at its location, and nopony has ever managed to snag a glimpse of the hero. Even Rainbowdash couldn’t come up with anything, and she was stumped herself on who it could possibly be? Sweetie Belle however knew the truth, and knew that Snaily always had to do with these things now a few times a week. The snail seemed to be even slower, and Sweetie Belle realized the snail had been getting older. Though surely they wouldn’t be ready to die already right? Sweetie Belle however received a mysterious note as well from her slimy friend. As Ditzy received a note from Snaily, Sweetie Belle’s note would read:
“As the sun hits the light to purge the darkness upon this land every single day, I must now require your assistance dear friend. You have been good to me, and proved your usefulness, though I must inform you on a critical timing concerning the terrible atrocity that ravages my brother and sisters within your town.
A feared enemy to us, called the white death, or salt in your terms, has been killing plenty of my family. I have had enough of this, and I require your assistance, along with a wall-eyed champion hopeful as well. Will you aid me in my mission to eliminate this grave threat to my family and loved ones?
I trust in you little filly, please do not wait any longer to let me know on your answer. Until then, I shall see you on the other side, fare thee well champion…even though I am right next to you as you read this. Locate this exterminator using salt, and your family shall be immensely rewarded, friend.
Sincerely,
Stormageddon- Dark Lord of All (A.K.A: Snaily, you call me that, so I shall accept your alias for me.)”
Sweetie Belle’s eyes then look back at the snail remaining there beside her, actually feeling nervous that this physics breaking snail even has written such a thing? However, she knew that the snail was a legit physics breaking, time defying snail, that could possibly even travel the far reaches of the universe if it wanted. She decides to then accept the snails offer, and help it.
“Okay Snaily, let’s do this! Just tell me what you need to do, and we’ll go do it ourselves!” Sweetie Belle then notices a piece of paper, that seemed to look like a map to the exterminator’s house fall from the ceiling.
“Did you just…ah forget it, your strange enough.” She then looks it over, and surprisingly enough, she knows where the exterminator’s house is within the town. She mainly knew where his house was, despite Rarity calling him over here herself a few times after she saw just one little ant or something within the place.
After a good half hour or so of being briefed from the mollusk, Sweetie Belle then opened up the door, inhaling the fresh air with a face of determination of her face, ready to put and end to this “tyranny” as Snaily told her.
“Okay…onward we go- WHOA!” Sweetie Belle then tripped, and Snaily flew out of her hoof, landing onto the ground, with a pony about to step on him.
“SNAIIIILYYYYYY!!!!” Sweetie Belle yelled out to it, but shortly thereafter a distinct “crunch” noise could be heard as the earth pony stopped for a moment to realize she had stepped on a snail.
“Ewww! My goodness…” the pony then wiped its hoof across the dirt below, and proceed onward, leaving Sweetie Belle in shock.
“SNAILY! SPEAK TO ME PAL!” She heard nothing from it, as she watched it literally cough back at her, as X’s on its eyes then revealed themselves on the eyes of its eyestalks. She simply sat there in silence, grieving over her insane and incomprehensible friend, as it remained dead within her hoof. Immediately though…her emotions went dry, and she head back inside.
“Well…guess I won’t have any rewards from him then.” she says to herself, as she then makes her way back inside to wash the slime and snail guts off of her hoof, and fool around the house for the rest of that afternoon.
So the snail’s legacy lives on in all of us now, as the legend of its kind, the invisible hero of the town, and a legacy that shall be left in its wake. Not as Snaily…but as a legend of Equestria, in a league of its own…and a story, that it never had the chance to tell to its own children and grandchildren. Stormageddon was a snail to be reckoned with; his only weakness however, despite him being able to have the abilities to defy the laws of physics…was being stepped on. We all shall miss Snaily, as a secret memorial was raised in his name back at the CMC’s clubhouse later that day after the news of Snaily’s untimely demise to Scootaloo and Apple Bloom.
R.I.P SNAILY…we love you.
