Sword in the Stone

by SwiftM0nkey

Rating: teen
Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Spike, Comedy, Bon-Bon, Discord, Human, Main 6, Lyra
Length: 1697

The old tale of a Sword in the Stone

A sword appears in the middle of Ponyville, but who can pull it out?

Published 2014-06-10 22:20:02 UTC
Last updated 2014-06-10 22:20:02 UTC

The Sword in the Stone

As you are walking down the street, a loud clank noise is heard. You turn towards where the sound came from and see a shining sword sticking up out of the ground. It somehow pierced right through the cobblestone and is standing straight up now. A few ponies have noticed as well and begin to walk over.

The sword seems to glow as it stabs the planet, making you all want it for yourselves. You walk up and grab onto the handle. Then use your strength and pull up. It doesn't even budge. You try again but with more force this time. It still does not move an inch.

You begin to stroke your chin in thought. A light bulb appears above your head. You grab on to the handle and thrust upwards with all of your strength.

Absolutely nothing happens.

You throw your hands up and turn around, shouting into the air, "FUCK THIS!"

As you stomp over to a bench and slam your ass down, Bon Bon comes over to the sword and tilts her head in confusion.

She bites the handle and pulls backward. It obviously doesn't move. Lyra comes up behind her and bites her tail as Bon Bon bites the handle. Both of them pull back, but it still doesn't move. They switch rolls with Lyra holding on to the sword and Bon Bon pulling her. That doesn't work either. They walk away hanging their heads.

Fluttershy flies by and then stops when she sees the sword. Her eyes grow wide and then she smiles. She brings her hoof up to her mouth and somehow whistles like that. A bunch of animals come over to her. She instructs them to line up big to small and pull on each other as she pulls the sword. The sword moves a little bit up, but then goes back into the ground.

All of the animals stop and she flies up a little bit. She thinks of an idea and then flies back over to her animals. The ones that cannot fly besides the bear go back home. The bear grabs hold of the sword and all of the flying animals including Fluttershy lift the bear. He grabs the sword and then they all fly up at once.

The sheer force they are putting on the sword makes the bear's paws slip and they all go flying into the sky, crashing behind some buildings. You shake your head slightly as you watch Applejack being lead up to the sword by her little sister Applebloom.

AJ walks up to the sword and circles it a bit, studying it. She turns around and lifts her legs to buck. When her hooves strike the sword, it bends and sends the same amount of force back at her as it straightens. This sends her flying back into her sister, knocking them both unconscious.

A tower of shopping bags is seen coming through the town. Suddenly they all fall and you see Spike covered in fabric standing right next to Rarity. Rarity's eyes go wide and the glow from the sword is reflected in them. Spike catches wind of this and rushes over to the sword. He pulls on it and it doesn't move.

Then he scratches his scales thinking of a way to get this gift to his mare. His eyes widen and he zooms off in a cloud of purple. He comes back a second later with a rope and ties it to the handle of the sword. Taking the rope in his mouth, he climbs the side of the town square building. He then attaches a few cinder blocks up there to the end of the rope and pushes it off the other side.

The rope tightens and Spike looks back down to see that the sword hasn't moved. Growing desperate now, he adds his own weight to the cinder blocks at the end of the rope.
The amount of weight on the rope is too much and knot around the sword snaps off, sending Spike falling to the ground with the cinder blocks. Rarity rushes to his aid and takes him to the hospital.

A rainbow streak is seen across the sky. It curves down to the sword and Rainbow Dash is seen there, staring at her own reflection on the sword's blade. She smirks and then bites down on the handle, pulling back. It doesn't move. She bites down on the handle and tries flying while biting it. It's still not going anywhere, and she looks angry. She lets go of the handle and zooms off.

A few minutes later an explosion noise is heard. You watch as she zooms over with a rope and hook attached to her waist. The hook goes right into a tiny hole on the tip of the handle and Rainbow pulls it with the rope. Surprisingly, the sword comes flying out of the ground. When it gets up high, the hook carrying it slips out. Rainbow cannot slow down and continues flying off into the distance.

The sword goes up quite a bit and then stabs right back into the ground at a different spot. You blink a few times. Just then Twilight is seen walking in front of you. She is snout deep in a book and not looking where she is going. She walks right into the sword, dropping her book in surprise. When she looks up to see what she has run into, her pupils grow.

She bites down on the handle and pulls back. It doesn't budge. She furrows her brow and stands back away. Then her horn glows and a purplish pink aura can be seen around the sword. Sweat begins rolling down her face as she tries her hardest to move it. The ground around the sword begins to crack and a chunk of the earth is lifted up.

She tries shaking it loose but cannot and drops it back down. With a groan she stomps away angrily. Pinkie is bouncing by and stops in mid air. Her eyes bulge out, touch the sword, and come back. She zooms over there and lands on it. She tries pulling it with her teeth. Nothing happens. She then tries standing on top of it and pulling it up. It still does not budge.

She wraps her tail around the blade and sits on the handle. Then her entire body vibrates. The sword slightly moves up but then drops back down. It sinks even deeper than it was before. She jumps off and growls at it. Then her hooves stretch far away and she pulls a pink cannon in front of her.

She puts a sphere shaped bomb in it and points it at the sword. She presses the button on top and covers her ears with her hooves. It fires and makes quite a loud bang. When the cloud of dust clears, you cannot believe what you are seeing.

The ground around where the sword is has been blown up, save for a lone spire where the sword rests. Pinkie's eye twitches. Steam shoots out of her ears and all the soot explodes off her body. She jumps down in the hole and begins beating at the stone there until the sword is free.

It pierces the bottom of the hole. She shakes her head and climbs out of the hole, then walks away with her head hung. Applejack wakes up and looks over to the hole in the ground where the sword rests. She then runs off in the opposite direction. A lone balloon floats by and stops above the hole.

It pops and the pieces of it stretch out to form Discord. He looks down at it and then slithers through the air to it. He puts his hand on it and pulls up thinking it would just come out, but it doesn't even move. He is taken back for a second and then pulls again, receiving the same result. It's funny that he thinks adding a second hand would help at all, because it doesn't. He turns the ground into cake with a snap of his fingers.

The bench you are sitting on begins to sink and you hold on tight. Roseluck gasps and then takes a huge chunk of cake out of the ground up to her mouth, licking her lips. Discord tries pulling up again, but it still doesn't move. Serious rage is seen on his face as he turns the ground back to normal. The bench is set back the right way and you sigh in relief. Roseluck takes a bite out of rock that was cake a second ago and shatters all her teeth.

Discord points his finger at the sword and fires a blast of magic at it. It bounces off the sword and hits him in the chest, melting him into a puddle of all his colors. The liquid Discord runs down the street and then flies off to Canterlot in the distance. The mane six come to the sword with their elements. They surround the hole and then all of them begin floating.

A thick rainbow is fired at the sword. In a nearly blinding light, the rainbow is shot back at them. They all fall to the ground and the elements shatter. Twilight is screaming about the elements of harmony while the other five stare at the sword. Suddenly they huddle together, split up, and each running into town at a different direction.

Within a couple minutes, they have gathered all of Ponyville into a single file line. With Twilight holding on to the sword, and everyone holding on to Twilight, they all pull back at once. The amount of pressure from this is too much even for the sword, and it comes flying out. It disappears with a twinkle in the sky.

Twilight rubs a hoof behind her head and looks at you, "Hehe... Guess that was a little too strong."

Past the Everfree Forest and hidden in the mountains lies the Changeling empire. As they work hard for their queen, a sword stabs into the ground.