Over the Garden Wall: MLP Edition

by fireball98

Rating: everyone
Tags: Adventure, Crossover
Length: 2128

Basically this is a MLP version of the miniseries called "Over the Garden Wall".

a/n: Twilight Sparkle will be one of the main protagonists, but she's going to be a unicorn instead of an alicorn, and Owloicious, Twilight's pet owl, will be Beatrice the bird, so she will have speaking roles. MLP belongs to Hasbro, and OTGW belongs to Cartoon Network and Patrick McHale.

Led through the mist
By the milk light of moon
All that was lost is revealed
Our long bye-gone burdens, mere echoes of the spring
But where have we come, and where shall we end?
If dreams can't come true, then why not pretend?
How the gentle leaves beckons through the leaves
As autumn colors fall

"Somewhere lost in the clouded annals of history, lies a place that few have seen: a mysterious place called the Everfree Forest, where long forgotten stories are revealed to those who wander into the woods."

"Albert Salami, Thomas, Artichoke.."
As Pinkie Pie was coming up with names for her pet alligator, Twilight Sparkle paid no attention and looked at her surroundings with a look of confusion.

"…Pete, Steve, but I think the worst name for this gator is-"
"Hold that thought Pinkie."

When the two mares got a better look of the forest they walked in. They saw animals with glowing red eyes perched on top of tree branches, and a baleful-looking tree with an owl sitting inside of it.

"Where are we?"

"In the woods." Pinkie said casually.

"I mean, what are we doing out here?" Twilight asked panically.

"We're trying to get home."

Twilight gasped and exclaimed, "Oh no! Pinkie Pie, I think we're lost! We should have left a trail or something!"

"Oh I know I know I know!" Pinkie said excitedly. "I could leave a trail of candy from my saddle pouch!"

Twilight gave a sad sigh and said, "No. Though I am lost, my wounded heart resides back in Ponyville in pieces, strewn about the graveyard of my lost love. For only-"

Twilight was interrupted by mysterious knocking sounds, so she, along with Pinkie Pie, got closer to sound, and saw that it was an orange earth pony with blonde hair, a brown cowboy hat, and three apples as a cutie mark chopping wood.

"Pinkie Pie, do you think that mare's a deranged lunatic with an axe waiting out in the darkness for innocent victims?"

"I dunno, maybe we should ask her for help."

"Yeah, I'm not sure if that's a good idea."

"But-"

"Shush!"

"Ooh, is this a shushing game? I love shushing games!"

"Pinkie, this isn't a game, I'm telling you to shush!"

"Shhhh!"

"Shhhh!"

After they both finally remained silent, the woodsmare had already left.

"Shoot. Do you think we should have asked her for help?" Twilight asked.

"Perhaps I can help you. I mean, you are lost, right?"

As Twilight looked around to find the voice, she looked down and saw a brown owl, the one who spoke to the two ponies. Twilight looked scared, for she had never seen a talking cat before.

Pinkie looked at Twilight and said, "Are you ok Twilight?"

"No, that owl just talked! It's crazy because a cat's brain is too small for developing speech."

"Excuse me?" the bird said angrily.

"I'm sorry, its just that it's weird, but it's not like you're weird or anything like that what I mean is… I'm not talking to an owl."

"What're y'all doin' here? Explain yerselves!"

The owl flew away quickly into the forest and said,"Well I guess I'll see you real soon, bye!"

As the orange mare shown a lit lantern in the two mare's faces, Twilight told her that she and her friend would like to get home safely with all their body parts attached.

"These woods here ain't no place for folks like you. Don'cha know that the beast's afoot here?!"

"Beast?! No no no we're just two lost ponies finding our way home, we don't anything about a beast or this place for that matter."

"Well then, welcome to the Everfree Forest."

The orange mare led the two ponies into an old abandoned mill, and tells them that they should be safe there while she works.

"Candy trail, candy trail, candy trail, candy trail…" Pinkie said as she threw pieces of candy on the floor.

Twilight looked quizzically at the orange pony and asked her,"So what is your work exactly?"

While looking into the lit fireplace, the orange pony said, "I grind these here edlewood branches into oil in order to keep this lantern lit."

"Uh huh, and why do you need to keep that thing lit?"

The woodsmare paused in silence, looking into the fire, not willing to give Twilight an answer.

Twilight thought she was crazy, so she walked over to Pinkie Pie and told her about making a run for it, but then she had another idea.

"What if she knows more about this forest than we do? We might have to knock her out first."

Pinkie nodded, but Twilight gave more thought into the plan and realized that it might not be a good idea.

"What are you two whisperin' about?"

Twilight tried to come up with a lie, but Pinkie jumped right in and said,"We're talking about running away."

"Leave if you wish, but remember: the beast haunts these woods. He's in search of lost souls such as yerselves."

"To help us?" Pinkie asked.

"No, he doesn't wanna help ya. If y'all excuse me, I have work to do in the mill. I'll do whatever I can to help ya, if you're still here I mean."

Twilight pondered for a moment and thought that maybe she and her friend could just leave, but she's still not sure.

"Hey Pinkie Pie?"

As the pink pony was playing with a log, and she put it down and listened to her friend instead.

"Do you think that there's really a beast out there, or is she just messing with us?"

"Yep!"

"I mean, she could have gotten rid of us by now if that was her plan, and she lit that fire, which is pretty nice of her. I guess there could be a beast, since there was a talking cat. I don't know, sometimes I feel like a boat, upon a winding river, twisting towards an endless black sea. Further and further, drifting away, from where I want to be, or who I want to be."

"I don't know what you're talking about, but did you know that if you soak a raisin in grape juice, it becomes a grape? It's a rock fact!" Pinkie said as she pulled out a rock with a face drawn onto it.

"Not helping. Pinkie, why don't you go play with your gator or something."
"Aww sprinkles. Where is that gator o' mine? Hold on second friend o' mine, Pinkie's coming for ya!" Pinkie then went outside to look for her pet alligator.

"Kitty? Kitty? Where is that gator called Kitty?" As she was looking, she heard a low growling noise coming from the forest, but then heard another noise coming from the mill, so she decided to follow that noise instead. Through a window, she could see the orange pony grinding edlewood branches into oil using machinery. As she was watching, she heard a high-pitched croaking noise coming from the barrel that Pinkie was standing on. She fell into the barrel, and realized she was sitting on her alligator.

"Oh there you are Kitty!"

The growling noise from the forest became closer, and Pinkie felt confused for a second.

"Twilight, is that you?"

Growling.

"Kitty?"

More growling. Suddenly, a giant timber-wolf with glowing green eyes stared down upon the pink pony and her alligator friend.
"Um, hi! My name's Pinkie Pie, and this my nameless pet gator. Can I just say, you have beautiful eyes."

As Twilight was laying on a couch, she heard crashing sounds, and begins to wonder if her friend is okay.

The orange mare heard this as well, and she comes into the other room and asks Twilight, "What's goin' on? Where's your friend?"

Twilight just shrugs, and as Pinkie Pie walks inside the mill, the timber-wolf busts the door down, looking ready to feast on the three ponies.

"It's the beast!" Twilight exclaims.

The orange mare jumps in front of Twilight with an axe to kill the timber-wolf, but before she could do that Pinkie Pie threw a large piece of wood on her head, which left her unconscious.

"Pinkie why did you do that?!"
"That was the plan remember? We knock her out!"
"I told you to forget about that!"
Pinkie Pie then ran up to the timber-wolf and tried to distract it by whacking it with the wooden rod of the axe. When the creature looked at her, Twilight ran and headed towards the room where the orange pony worked, and Pinkie ran away after Twilight.

Pinkie then laughed and said, "This is so much fun!"
Twilight then thought to herself, Sure, if you call a near-death experience fun.

Twilight kept throwing random objects at the creature and used some of her magic to scare it away, but her plan had failed, but Pinkie Pie threw her candy at it, and the timber-wolf started eating it.

"Pinkie, it's eating your candy!"
"I wonder if it ate the candy trail that led to this mill."
Twilight smacked Pinkie on the head and shouted, "Pinkie Pie! You led the beast right to us with your candy! We have to get out of here!"

Pinkie then motioned a hoof toward a ladder, so she and Twilight climbed up and opened up a hole which led to the rooftop. As the timber-wolf
came towards them, Pinkie threw one piece of candy on the ground, and as the creature chased after it, the timber-wolf fell off the roof and got trapped in one of the contraptions attached to the side of the building. Soon, the whole mill became dilapidated, and the timber-wolf is now dead.

The orange pony woke up and looked at the destruction in horror.
"Look what you two did! The mill, it's destroyed, and the oil's all gone!"
Twilight stepped in front of the orange mare and said, "Listen, I am really sorry for what we've done, but look on the bright side: we got took care of the beast for you."

The two ponies looked around and saw nothing but a small white dog with brown spots, laying down on the dirt.
"The dog? That is not the beast! He stalks like the night, he sings like the four winds, he steals the children! You two are responsible for your actions!"

"I'm sorry, I'd fix it for you but I haven't learned any repair spells yet."

The orange mare motioned a hoof towards a straight path and told them to follow it and find a town. Before Twilight and Pinkie headed towards the path, the orange pony gave them one final warning: "Remember, beware of the Everfree Forest, fear the beast, and leave these woods if you can. It is you're burden to bare."

Twilight nodded and thanked her, and the orange pony told Pinkie to give her alligator a name. After that the two friends followed the path.

"Hey Twilight, I think I've come up with a good name for our alligator. I'm gonna call him Twilight Sparkle!"

"That's going to be really confusing."

"Then I'm gonna call you Kitty."

"Oh really? I guess I should start calling you Candy Girl."

The alligator made another croaking sound, Pinkie laughed and said, "Good one, Twilight!"

"Thanks."

"I wasn't talking to you Kitty, I was talking to Twilight!"

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2014-11-16 02:03:51 UTC

Chapter 1

Early in the morning, the autumn leaves fall off the branches, and as the wind blows them away, ducks are flying high in the air, a cricket makes it chirping sounds, and turkeys can be seen roaming about the woods.

To Twilight, it feels like she and Pinkie Pie have been walking in the forest for hours, trying to look for a town so that hopefully they could seek some answers on how to get back to their hometown.

"It's almost morning. We should have found a town by now. This is the way the woodsmare told us to go right Pinkie?"

"Have you been listening to anything I have said? For the last two hours I've been saying..." Pinkie then started making noises with her mouth as if she's telling Twilight something in an unknown language.

Twilight got annoyed at this and walked ahead of the pink pony.

"Help! Somepony please help me!"

Pinkie Pie looked around and said, "Wait Twilight, I hear something!"

"It's probably nothing. Hey, look at this."

Twilight walked towards a tree with a sign attached that said  Pottsfield: 1 Mile.

"Pinkie look, a town! Let's go this way!"

"Okay, let's go that way." Instead of heading towards Twilight's direction, she walked around the forest to find out who cried for help.

"Hey you!"

"Who me?"

"Yes can you please look behind you darling?"

Pinkie did just that and saw the owl from before trapped in many vines coming from the bushes.

"Oh, it's you again. I seem to be trapped in these here vines.  If you could help me out from this I'll owe you a big favor."

"Whoa! Does that mean you can grant wishes?"

"No no no, I'm not magical."

"Can you turn me into a tiger?"

"Um, no. I just said I'm not magical."

"It doesn't have to be a magical tiger."

Twilight walked up to Pinkie  and said, "Pinkie, stop talking to the bushes."

Right before Pinkie looked up to Twilight, she had just freed the owl from the vines.

"Thank you, I shall owe you a favor soon. Anyway, you two are lost ponies with no purpose in life right?"

Pinkie smiled and said "Yep!"

"How about I bring you to Chrysalis of the Pasture, the good mare of the woods. She could help you get back home."

Pinkie Pie seemed to like this idea, but Twilight objected. "Nope. Magic talking animals, taking us to fairy godmothers, in these mysterious woods... I'm going to Pottsfield."

"Yeah, we're going to Pottsfield! Come on!"

"What about the favor?"

"I'll think of my wish later."

As the three creatures walked down a path that led to the town, Pinkie looked at the cat and said, "So, let's small talk. My name's Pinkie Pie. What's yours?"

"Rarity."

"My friend's name is Twilight Sparkle-"

"Who cares?"

"And my gator's name is Twilight Jr., but that may change."

"Pinkie, let's say you and I ditch your friend for a bit."

"Maybe later. Is it nice being a owl?"

"Nope."

"Oh, do you like cupcakes?"

"No, cupcakes make me sick. I eat rodents, yuck!" After saying this, Pinkie screamed at the top of her lungs.

"What's wrong?"

"How could you not eat cupcakes? AHHH!"

"What now?"

"I stepped on a pumpkin!" Pinkie shouted after she had done the said action with her front right hoof.

"Aha! Civilization! Let's rejoin society" Twilight exclaimed as they got closer to the town.

As they were looking around, the town was absolutely quiet, for there were no residents walking around the streets.

"Hello? Hello? Do you guys see anyone?"

Pinkie pondered at Twilight's question for a second, and said, "I see you!"

Rarity spoke up and said, "I don't mean to be a burden or anything, but it looks like an abandoned ghost town doesn't seem that useful getting you two home."

Twilight ignored her and went into an old house to find someone who might help her. As she opened the door, she saw nothing but a table and a turkey standing behind it. Twilight then shut the door and went back to her group.

"So, did you find anything?" Rarity asked.

"Nope. Where's Pinkie Pie?"

After she said this, the pink earth pony popped her head out of a pile of hay and said, "Do you guys hear that?"

The trio suddenly heard singing voices coming from a barn, so they decided to go there and see what's going on.

When they got to the barn, they saw creatures that looked like ponies, only every inch of their bodies are covered with vegetables, and they wore pumpkins on their heads.

As they became bewildered by what they saw, one of the pumpkin-ponies went inside the barn and noticed the trio.

"Hey, you guys should work on the vegetables and celebrate the harvest with us."

Twilight was confused at first, but then she got an idea of why the residents were dressed like this.

"Oh! You're wearing costumes right?"

"Well sure, pumpkins can't move on their own, can they?"

"Good thing I didn't take this pumpkin shoe off!" Pinkie said cheerfully.

"You find this place as creepy as I do right?" Rarity said with a frightened expression.

"So maybe this is some weird cult where ponies dress in vegetable costumes and dance around a big statue or something. They seem nice enough."

"Ok, you're in denial, that's fine, but I'm just saying there's something off about this place."

"Well, maybe I could find someone who could give us a ride home. Pinkie stay out of trouble, and Rarity, thank you but I don't need your help you can leave now."

"I can't leave. I'm only here because since you two helped me, it's my turn to help you. It's called an 'owl's honor'."

"Rarity, would you care for this dance?" Pinkie asked.

"No thanks."

Pinkie ignored this and danced around while Rarity was sitting on top of her fluffy mane.

Meanwhile, Twilight walked around trying to find somebody to talk to, but another Pottsfield resident noticed her and said, "Hey, aren't you a little too early?"

"What?"

"I mean, it doesn't look like you're ready to join us yet."

"Join you? Me and my friends are just passing through."

"Folks don't tend to 'pass through' Pottsfield."

"Oh really?"

"Yeah, it's nice here."

"Um, I'm just looking to get out of here as quickly as possible."

Just then, an elderly resident of Pottsfield held a cornucopia up to where his ears should be and said, "W-What? Leave Pottsfield? Who wants to leave Pottsfield?" As soon as he said this, all of the residents heard this and stopped their party.

"Oh, are we leaving already?" asked Pinkie.

"Let's leave immediately!" said Rarity.

But it seemed too late for them, for one of the residents shut the doors, and everyone was huddled around the trio.

"Now hold on everybody, let's not jump to any conclusions."

Everyone looked to see who said this, and saw that it was the town leader named Enoch, a gigantic pony wrapped in strings and is wearing a giant pumpkin head.

"Enoch, what shall we do with them?"

Since she became more frightened than she already was, Rarity wandered around to find an escape route and said, "I'm outta here!"

Enoch looked at the purple unicorn and her earth pony friend and said, "Now let's see here, how'd you end up in this little town of ours?"

"Well, you see we were trying to get home, we came into town from the woods, we saw your farms and your houses and thought 'Hey, here's a normal place with normal people'-

"And we stepped on pumpkins!"

"Right, then we heard music from the barn and um... um... how about we just leave?"

Enoch chuckled at this and said, "So let me get this straight: you come to our town, you trample our crops, you interrupt our private engagement, and now you want to leave?"

"Uh, yes."

"You'll never convict! You have no proof!"

Just then, a Pottsfield came up to the leader with Rarity in his hooves.

"This one tried to escape!"

"You put me down this instant! I don't know these clowns!"

"Children, it saddens me that you don't wish to stay here, mostly because I have to simply punish you for your transgressions."

"I told you this place was bad news!"

"So by the Pottsfield Chamber of Commerce, I find you guilty of trespassing, destruction of property, disturbing the peace. I sentence you to a few hours of manual labor."

"Wait what?"

Soon the trio were sent to work in the crops while wearing shackles, and after that they would most likely be on their way into the woods.

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A few hours later...

"Just a few hours of manual labor and we're almost done." said Twilight as she and Pinkie Pie were digging holes.

Rarity looked up at the unicorn and said, "And then what are you going to do? Just wander around, this way and that way,  through the woods forevermore?"

"Uh... maybe we should stay here in Pottsfield, it's nice here. Heh heh,  maybe, I don't know."

"Why do they even have you digging these holes?"

"Maybe they're planting seeds or something."

"Or maybe they want to bury you."

"What? That's just ridiculous."

"Hey you guys! I found buried treasure!" Pinkie said cheerfully.

"Really? See Rarity? What'd you find Pinkie?"

"A skeleton!"

Twilight jumped back a little, frightened and confused at what she saw in the hole Pinkie dug up.

"Oh my gosh, we're digging our own... Rarity, I was wrong all along, I don't know how to get home! Use your little feet to pick our locks!"

"Oh, so now you want my help?"

When Twilight saw Enoch and the rest of the townspeople walking through the crops and towards her, she started to panic and says, "Yes! I really want your help!"

"Time is up!" Twilight jumped, and looked behind her to see everyone gathered around.

"Has the work been done?"

"Uh, yeah."

"Splendid, well then-"

"I mean no."

"No?"

Twilight tried to come up with more things to say, so she looked in her hole and saw Rarity picking the locks with her shovel.

"Keep stalling." she whispered.

Twilight turned back to the residents and said, "Well, we were digging, but then we saw that there were too many rocks in the way. You guys don't like rocks right?"

Everyone murmured in agreement, and after that Twilight tried to continue.

"So I was thinking, 'We should get rid of these rocks.' So we were getting rid of the rocks and..."

Twilight looked behind her and noticed that Pinkie Pie, the gator, and Rarity got out of their holes and took off.

"What happened to the rocks?" asked one of the residents.

As Twilight was figuring out what words to say, the skeleton that Pinkie found came to life and climbed to the surface, and started dancing.

All the townsfolk of Pottsfield quickly gathered around the dancing skeleton, who then rolled a pumpkin over his bony arms and placed it on top of his skull, then he jumped and landed on a bigger pumpkin.

"They're all skeletons." Twilight whispered.

As everyone started to dance with each other, Enoch turned to Twilight and asked her, "Are you sure you wanna leave?"

"Yes definitely."

"Oh well, you'll join us someday."

"Psst, Twilight!"

Twilight turned around and saw Rarity peeking her head out of some tall grass.

"Why are you still here?"

"You guys left me!"

Rarity then motioned one of her wings toward Twilight's left hindleg, and the unicorn noticed that Rarity had already picked all the locks. Twilight ran into the forest and saw Pinkie Pie playing with her pet gator.

"Is anyone chasing us?"

"Nope!" Rarity and Pinkie said in unison.

"I thought you guys-"

"You're welcome." said Rarity.

"Thank you. I guess we're even now, you're not around to help us out anymore."

"I wish, but you weren't in any real danger with those weirdos."

Twilight grinned and said, "Oh yeah, then you still have to get us back home."

"I got it! I wish that Twilight Jr. had fingernails so that he could play the guitar better!" Pinkie said cheerfully.

"So sure I'll bring you to Chrysalis'. That's where I'm going anyway."

"Why are you going to Chrysalis'?" asked Pinkie.

"I guess in some ways, I'm trying to get home too."

"That's pretty vague. What does that mean?" Twilight asked.

"I don't have to tell you anything."

"Well, I sure hope that Chrysalis is more helpful than that woodsmare. I think her directions were not so good."

And so, Twilight, Pinkie, the gator, and Rarity walk through the woods as they continue their journey to find a way back home.