How and Why?

by LazyPone

Chapter 5: Apple Bucking and fucking griffons

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Applejack can be fucking stubborn when faced to do the impossible, yep, just as I anticipated. Applejack taking on the entire orchard herself, just because she's the element of honesty doesn't mean she's a fucking Mary Sue. We all have flaws, even me. Anyway, it all started when a powered back up, oh yeah, I figured out I can power down and back up at will, turns out I can still what's going on outside of my body, but time seems to fly. But getting back to day, I powered back up to the rumbling of the walls and ground. *Oh for fucks sake, couldn't you wait a few more days, universe?* The walls kept shaking, ugh, might as well deal with it. I make it the side of town where the dust cloud of the stampede.

"Stamp Eeeeeeeee!" She yells, everpony proceeds to run around and into their homes, except for me and Pinkie. We were having fun with our funny voices.

"T-t-t-t-h-i-i-i-i-s-s-s-s-s i-i-s-s f-f-u-u-u-u-u-n-n!"

"Y-y-o-o-o-u-r-r r-r-r-i-i-i-i-g-h-t P-p-i-i-i-n-k-i-e! T-t-t-h-i-i-i-s-s i-i-i-s-s f-f-u-u-u-n-n!" We laugh with shaky voices as the stampede shakes the ground.

"Hey! There's Applejack!" We all look at where the stampede, I can see the little orange dot that is Aj, with a smaller brown dot that is Winona. Huh, Winona actually look more cute in real life than in the show, what? So what if I said that? Meh... Anyway. We see Aj and Winona gather the cows, Aj tosses the rope when Winona identifies the lead cow, and lead them away! It looked pretty awesome! The crowd cheers in Aj's name for saving Ponyville. While said pony cheered for went back the orchard. And guess what? The town throws a party for her! To give her that trophy that she earned for saving Ponyville. I decided to head off to the library to read something, yes, I like to read. You can even call me a bookworm back on Earth, but seeing as how I wouldn't have been able to read unicornian or earth pony text, it's through the magic that is my metallic brian! I just needed to memorize the alphabet and compare it to the english alphabet, which means I can read any language, as long as I am provided with the alphabet of said language. Anyway, I say I took about maybe three or four hours of reading when there was a crash from upstairs.

*Here we go.* A few seconds go by and Twi trots down the stairs to head over to Sweet Apple Acres. "Heading' off to Sweet Apple Acres?" Twi's eyes widen in shock.

"How did you... Nevermind, forgot about you knowing the future. Yes, I am, you want to come alonge?"

"Sure, I just finished reading Equestrian History and was just about to go into mythology."

"You read all of that!? In three hours!?" She points a hoof to behind me. I look behind me to see a few four feet tall stacks of books on a table.

"Yeah, pretty much." I say when I look back at her, she look surprised, again. Seriously! How many times am I going to surprise these ponies!? Meh... probably when I stop discovering things about my body. We head off to S.A.A. (Sweet Apple Acres). Only to find the place empty, "What the hell...?"

"Where is she?" I realized that we're a bit too late.

"We need to head back to ponyville, NOW!" I grab Twi, position her over my shoulders like you would a cape, and take off towards Ponyville. When we get there, the bunnies have already started to eat all the flora. I look behind me to Twi. "We need to have a talk with Applejack." She flinches when I use her full name, but she nods in agreement and I fly to S.A.A.....

I land a few yards away from Applejack as to not startle her and let Twi down gently. "Thank you, that was fun."

"Anytime." She canters over to Applejack.

"Applejack, we need to talk..." They talk for about, one minute. Yep, one. Fucking. Minute. Either Applejack was too tired to argue, or she finally realized that the independent can be dependent sometimes. I vote for the latter. Anyway Twi asked me to go gather the girls, which I did. When I came back we all set to work, well, more like this.

“Alright girls, how about this; I buck and you gather. Does that sound good?” They all nod in agreement. I guess Aj told them how fast I can be. Which, of course, set Skittles off.

“You buck and we gather!? How about you and me buck and the rest can gather?” My eyes flash a playful blue and I smirk.

“Is that a challenge?” Her eye twitches, but she nods in agreement. “Lets make this interesting, 100 bits says I win, and 100 bits says you win, deal?”

“Deal!” The rest of the girls watch as we get ready to take off. Aj already had all the buckets set up for the entire orchard. This time Twi has the rag, she wants to time us to see who bucks the fastest. Skittles takes the west side of the orchard, and I take the east side.

“Ready!?” Skittles flares her wings and snorts. I just snicker. “Get set!” The rag is held just above Twi’s horn, held in her magical. The tension in the air between me and Skittles can be cut with a knife. “GO!” Skittles shoots off to the west side, leaving a dust cloud. Once the cloud clears, everypony can see me still standing there.

“Why are still standing there!?”

“Because, I wanted to give her a head start.” And with a twitch of my leg I blink out of existence, only to appear right next to a tree to buck it, all it takes for me is to ‘lightly’ kick it with my right foot. And all the apples fall into the buckets waiting for them. Next thing you know I’m blinking from tree to tree. Bucking them so fast that according to Aj, ‘It looked like the apples where just falling off the trees!’. I come back to the area where the girls were when I started bucking. “I’m back!” The girls weren't expecting me to came back so soon, maybe except for Aj.

“How!? That’s impossible!” Had I really been that fast?

*Lets find out how fast I was*

“How much did it take from start to finish Twi?”

“One hour!”

“Really!?” I look back to the side of the orchard I cleared. I fly up to get a good view of it, it looks to be about… ten, maybe, fifteen acres of trees I cleared. I hover back down to the ground. “Aj, How many acres of trees did I cover?”

“Ah’ reckon just about 14 acres.” The clang of my golden jaw made hitting the floor. I pick it up after a minute.

“I guess Skittles owes me a hundred bits.”

“Eeyup.” We all turn around to see Big Mac Clopping his way over to us.

“Hey Mac!” We all say in unison, it sounded like children greeting their teacher, creepy.

“I gotta say Streak, i've never seen a livin’ thing buck apples like you did.”

“Thanks Mac.” I would be blushing if I had blood. I usually never get compliments like that, it makes me feel weird. “You guys wanna find out how Rainbow’s doing’?” They all nod in unison. Again, fucking creepy. “Lets find out.” Smoke billows from my feet and I rocket to see far Skittles has gone. Looks like she’s got three quarters done of her part. I fall back down with a loud thud, and leaving a small crater. Aj and Mac give me a dirty look, funny because they got dirt on their faces. I chuckle, “Relax, I got this.” I side step out of the crater, open the MC inventory panel, and spawn some dirt, which happens to appear and fill the crater. I look from the filled crater to the awed faces of the ponies, except for Rarity. She’s seen me spawn stuff before, but she still gets wide eyed when I spawn stuff. “Can anypony guess when Rainbow’s gonna be done?” Just as I ask that. I’m tackled from the side by a Rainbow blur.

“That is NOT possible! You can't be done with your part!”

"Don't believe it? Go look for yourself." She immediately takes off, using me as a launching pad. "That would of hurt if I had a heart. Literally and metaphorically."

"Why metaphorically?"

"Lets just say that the last person I hated needed me as their last resort to live, and I turned said person down. Simply because I, HATED, said person" *I'll let them connect the dots...* We all see Skittles descending in our direction, specifically me. My eyes flash a bright white, sounds weird when your eyes are already pure white. But it works, don't know how and don't ask me, it works. Anyway, my eyes flash a bright white and a blink out of existence. It's weird how I do that, I just blink and i'm where I want to be. Anyway, I blik to right next the others. Aaaand Skittles hit the ground, HARD. I don't how she lived through that, fucking pony magic. "I do believe you owe me one hundred bits, Skittles." Her nostrils flare and she snorts.

"Buck that! I want a rematch!"

"And what will the challenge be this time?"

"I'll figure it out! There must be something you can't do better then me..." She flies away muttering to herself about a double sonic boom.

*Try as you may Skittles, you will never beat me...* I'm probably going to regret thinking that. But whatever, at the moment I don't give a flying fuck. "You want me to finish off what Rainbow didn't Aj?"

"It'd be kind of yah to do that."

"Be back in ten." Blink to the middle of the area Skittles left unattended, and it only took ten seconds. When that shit's done with I blink back to the group. Twi was timing me.

"It was ten seconds! Amazing! Streak, do you mind if you come over to the library with me?"

"I'm gonna need you to hold that off, you'll get an opportunity to study me another time." Again her eyes go wide, yep, I practically know all these ponies by heart, only reason being that i've watch the show five fucking times, all four seasons. And was awaiting on season five. Anyway, "Right now, I think Flutters was about to guide a family of ducks, weren't you?" We all look to Fluttershy. And cutely tries to hide behind her mane. "Flutters, you need to find a better hiding spot. But, you really should get going to that family of ducks, somepony could accidentally step on them." She forgets her shyness and realizes my words are true.

"Oh my goodness! Your right! I'm sorry girls, but he's right, I need to get going." She says in her ever so delicate voice. She promptly flies off to wherever that family of ducks were.

"Somethin's goin' to happen, somethin' we don't like,isn't there?" Aj says in a downcast tone. But I know how to cheer her up.

"If it helps Aj, i'll be there to protect Flutters, and Rainbow is going to get a valuable lesson in true friendship. Now if you will excuse me, I have to go protect Fluttershy." I bolt off into the air. *I just hope i'm not too late...*

*I am too late.* I think to myself as I spot Fluttershy. She already bumped into Gilda. Gilda was mocking Fluttershy, and she was about to roar. *OH FUCK NO!!!* My eyes turn a deep red as I blink in front of Gilda, and in good timing too, as she roared into my face and not Flutters. But the poor pony was still terrified. Spittle Flies out of Gilda's maw while I stand my ground. When she stopped roaring in my face and gets a good look at my face. She flinches, bad.

"What the fuck are you!?" She yells in the raspy deep voice fit for a man, with the worlds tiniest balls.

"The last thing you want to piss off." My voice became demonic, even the color of me 'skin' started to fade to a dull grey.

"You don't scare me!" Now, you should know that I can read people like a kids book. Same goes to ponies and griffons. And I can see fear behind her 'brave' eyes. And another about me, I know too well how these kinds of things can be, i've targeted by too many of them. And all that rage, all that, pure. BURNING. RAGE had finally been able to come out and play with piece of meat the doesn't deserve to live. But, I to hold back i'd be ridiculed I turned this into a blood bath. And it kill me if Flutters saw who I really am. A monster.

"You don't need to lie, you are sacred of me, and I KNOW why!" I fade away, only for Gilda to be pushed against a wall with enough force to wind her breathless. "You're scared because you don't what or who I AM!" I throw her to the ground, hard. "Now get out of here before I kill you." She stands her ground. "Choice, pessant." My fingers grow longer and sharpen to form long knifes. THAT got her attention fast, at the sight of the knifes, she backs down. "Very wise, now LEAVE!" Shs shakily flies away. I look back to the crowd that formed in the background. And my body regains it's natural form, but that didn't matter, all that mattered the Fluttershy was unharmed. I quickly sit by her and hug her, her coat is sooooft. "Fluttershy? You ok?" My voice went back to it's normal metallic state. I see Flutters nod into my chest as she continues to cry. I get up while still holding her. "Come on, lets get you home."

"O-*sniff*-okay." I gently begin to walk off to her home at the other side of town. When I was intercepted by the rest of the girls. They all look at me worriedly.

"It's ok girls. Flutters is just fine." Their faces soften to small smiles. "You girls want to accompany me to Fluttershy's home?" They nod in unison. "Alright then, follow me." But instead of following me, they trot next to me. Twi, Aj, and Rares to my left. Pinkie and Skittles to my right. And like that, we make are way to Fluttershy's Cottage. "We saw the whole thing, you scared us at first, but we knew you wouldn't do something you know you'd regret."

"Thank you."


Author's Note

I was feeling Dark when typing the last part, so I thought I might as well show a small sliver of the darkness that resides within my very being. No spoilers for next chapter.

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