How and Why? Season 2!
Chapter 9: Frauds and the Daring
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"What in the hay!?" Aj struggles to break free, but I held my vice grip. Aj looked behind her to see my arm wrapped around her barrel. "Streak!? Let me go!"
"You shouldn't of broke the Pinkie promise. You shouldn't of done it. Why did you have to break it? Why? WHY? Why did you have to break it!?" Aj recoils at my spewing. But seriously! I thought ME making her do it was telling her something! Apparently she's still hard headed. Anyway, Pinkie's getting closer. I look at her with mock pure fear, yeah, I'm kinda good at acting, just to do that thing where I can call in sick with the 'one day flu'. If ya know what I mean congratulations, you're just as lazy as me when it comes to work. Anyway, when Pinks is close enough she pounces at Aj. I let go before I'm dragged along to a pile up. I get a good look at Pinks and her eyes are like Discords, but the irises are yellow and the rest of the eye is red. The only reason it looked creepy is due to the drastic color change of her eyes to her coat, fucking weird and creepy at the same time.
"Why did you break you promise!?"
"W-well Ah-"
"TELL ME!!"
"Ah didn't win the rodeo!!" Aj covers her face with her forelegs. "Ah didn't to come back to town and disappoint everypony..." She's sobbing at this point.
"Oh, ok!" Pinkie hops off of Aj. I'm thinking she's bipolar, but she's fucking Pinkie Pie when the hell is there anything normal about her?
"Applejack," She stumbles up on her hooves, fear clear in her emerald eyes. "you wouldn't of disappointed us if ya came back from Canterlot empty handed, or hoof in this case." She sees the sincerity in my eyes, she slumps and sighs in relief. "And to know that you went though some trouble to get away from us shows that you have too much pride. Not that it's a bad thing, kinda is, but you shouldn't of even thought that we would hate you for not winning. Sure we would be a little disappointed, but the fact still stands that you're our friend. No matter what."
"What Streak's saying is true Applejack, we didn't come all the way over here to not return without you." Just then something I saw came to the front of my memory.
"If that little rant didn't convince you, this will." I play the memory with a two dimensional hologram display. Remember I did that before? I forget how long ago, or what for, but I remember doing it. Anyway, the video plays the Apple family, more importantly Big Mac and Granny. Mac with a tear in his eye. Aj, seeing this, tears up herself.
"A-ah didn't know I did this to them..."
"They're worried about you we were worried about you. Everypony at Ponyville is worried about you. And to be honest Aj, that was a really stupid reason to not return." Aj scowls at me. "Look at me all ya want, I am right."
Aj growls at me, but her face softens."Yeah... Ah suppose yer right..." Not being one to enjoy others sorrow, well... other friends sorrow anyway... "Enough depressing shit! Time to get back to Ponyville!" I say with immense passion, exaggerating. But before I can teleport Rares stops me.
"Wait!" I look at her blankly. "What about all our luggage?"
"Did you really bring luggage?" She nods. "Ugh, hold on." I snap my fingers and her luggage appears at her side. "How where you able to bring that much in so little time?"
"A lady has her secrets darling." She says while pointing her snout up into the air.
"Whatever, lets just get the fuck back to Ponyville!" I say as I teleport all of us to Ponyville. More specifically Sweet Apple Acres, right in front the home Aj, Granny, Mac and Bloom live in. Without wasting another second, Aj gallops off to the house, greeting her family. *Reminds me of my family...*
"Um... Streak? Are you ok?" I look at Flutters.
"I'm fine, why do you ask?"
"Ya look like you're tearing up." I reach a hand up and wipe under my eyes, and sure enough there was a wet spot.
"Huh, haven't done that in a while..."
"Are you sure you're ok Streak?" I nod my head.
"I'm perfectly fine! Just fine... I just... need to go home, it's been a long day." I say as I walk off back to my place. I can hear the girls whispering.
"What do you think was that all about?"
"I don't exactly know, but I think it may have to do with his family."
"Why do you say that?"
"Well, have any of you girls hear him talking about his family?" I can't see them, but I'm guessing they're all shaking their heads. "Precisely, I think he has some harsh history with his family."
"How are we gonna find out if that's true?"
"I think I have an idea!" She quietly shouts. Wonder how that works...
*She better not-*
"I can send a letter to Princess Luna to take a look at his memories."
"Isn't that, um... Wrong?" At least Flutters knows not to delve into other's past. But her plea didn't work.
"Then how are we going to find out about his past?" At this point I cast an invisibility spell on me and got closer to them. I wanted to find out how they're going to invade the privacy of my mind.
"Oh, I don't know... Maybe we can ask him instead?" I would still say no, but that's a better idea then getting the Princess of the fucking Night to go into my memories.
"Do you honestly think if we just came up to him suddenly and asked from him to tell us of his past darling?" I decided to end it there.
"Rarity's right," I say I kill the spell and appear right in front of them, I startle them but I currently can't give a flying fuck. "If ya think you can find out about my past. It's gonna take a lot to get it out of me. More than the big guns. I'm not going to like it, but with you girls, I can make an exception. I'm gonna make it a bit of a challenge." I finish with a smirk. "Oh, and I suggest that you contemplate shit like that when I'm miles away." With that I walk away to my home, greet and say my goodnight to Echo. Who was happy to see me return. And then I power down for the night.
--------->>>>One week later<<<<---------
There has been talk around town about Applebucking Season, I even went by the farm to confirm this myself. And it also means that the Apple Family have nearly overworked themselves to get all the apples they need for all the cider. So I of course I helped out. And because of me they were able to be ready, early, to serve all of Ponyville. Aj even promised to save a barrel for me and the girls should she run out during the sales. And everything pretty much went smoothly from there, but you and I know what happens here. Fucking Flim Flam brothers, I've always hated those guys too; trying to run the Apple Family out of business. And I would be having NONE of that. But alas, I couldn't go against the whole entire town. So all I could do was wait until they arrived, and until everypony tries the brother's version of cider. Right now I'm with Aj, Mac, Bloom and Granny at their stand right outside their orchard. Granny still looking young as ever, and even though it's sunrise there's a bit of a line in front of the stall. Ponies here really love there cider. There's even a kid friendly version! Though it just means really goo apple juice. Anyway, me and Aj were making idle chat as they were prepping the start selling cider. Mac manning the barrel full of cider, and Granny keeping track of sales with that small metal box.
"Boy, there sure are a lot of ponies here already!"
"Isn't like this every year?"
"Well, yeah... But this year I'm seein' more ponies gather compared to last year."
"If only I was here for last year then I would believe ya."
"You callin' me a lair?"
"No, but you do a tendency to bend the truth. And no it's not the same as lying." I added that little bit to shut her up.
"It's almost time!" Bloom shouts, we all look up to the sun, something possible to organic beings on this world due to the actual size of the sun being smaller than the planet. Don't ask me how it works, fucking pony magics and shit. Bloom decides to count down the time until sales start. "Five... Four... Three... Two... ONE!!" Everypony cheered when Bloom shouted the last digit. Aj, Mac and Granny got to work, Mac filling mugs, Aj charging and handing, or hoofing, them out. With Granny receiving and storing all the bits. And I'd say this went on for the rest of the day, the girls coming by at some point to get some cider. Skittles was admittedly overexcited about getting some cider. And Rares wearing a huge fucking hat. Looks like an over sized, pink, feathered up fedora. When Skittles saw the line she cried out in despair.
"We'er never gonna get cider now!" Just then something from a Charley in the Chocolate Factory movie came into view, at a distance, making comical machine noises. As it comes closer two figures can be seen atop the metal monstrosity. As the thing comes to halt, all the metal clanking starts to make a melody, followed by singing from the two con artists. I'm not going to delve into the singing so the wonderful author is going to do that for me.
~At least you give me respect Streak. Here, for you lovely readers. I rather add links than put the video in here to not add clutter. Just my predilection, back to the story.~
Alright, the song lasted too fucking long for any normal human beging. But I'm NOT any normal human. I managed to cancel out the music as it continued to play. I don't know how I'm able to do it, I guess you can chalk it up to not paying attention in class and not hearing what the teacher is saying? Meh... that's all I got, anyway. The bros have stopped singing and served everypony their machine made cider. And surprisingly nopony drinks it until all of them had a mug, weird. But either way everypony drinks the fucking piss colored drink. And unsurprisingly everypony gags at the fowl tasting concoction. The brothers appalled by their reactions to their supposed 'Most amazing cider in all of Equestria'.
"This is terrible!" Berry punch exclaims.
"Disgusting!" Earth pony version of Caramel shouts. If that sounds weird you don't know that Caramel has made many appearances in the show, as an earth pony, Pegasus, and a mare. Look it up if ya don't believe me. Anyway, the large crowd of ponies erupt to shouting at the Flim Flam bros. Who where currently cowering above the fucking machine, I know it has a name, but I really can't care less about that. I'm more concerned about what the crowd is gonna do to them. I may hate them, but it's not to a point where I wish ill will to them. and right now there's a growing pile of ponies around the cart. machine thing. Before it can even get more out of ha-hoof, I teleport to in front of the brothers.
"What is THAT!?" Flim says.
"I don't know Flam. But I say it's here to help us out!" They both have that eighties announcer voice, you know, that guy in that black-and-white screen trying to sell products too enthusiastically. Whatever, when they make those comments I turn to look at them, my eyes flash a playful blue as I cast my transformation spell to change me to my pony form. Then recognition dons on them. "Oohh! The famous Prince Golden Streak!" I smirk and turn to them expanding pile of ponies under me.
"Ponies of Ponyville!" I below to the crowd. "Stop this at once!" That got there attention, I don't know how though, what I said just sounded lame. Eh... as long as it worked, which it did. "Just because these con artists deceived you doesn't allow you to bring harm upon them." The ponies murmur as they debate whether my words are true or not. Then
slowly, everypony shrugs and make a line front of the Apple Family Cider Stall. Much to the enjoyment of the Apple quartet. Even after all that shit. Skittles and the girls STILL didn't get in front of the line. Much to the annoyance of Skittles. But the girls managed to calm and reassure her. As the ponies are being served their cider, I look to the Brothers. "Scram." They nodded quickly and sped off on their machine. And the rest of the day is filled with ponies rejoicing with their cider. In the end though, the girls are in front of the line, more like the only ones in the line. Aj takes the bits provided by Twi to buy enough cider for everyone. Granny takes the money and Mac opens the faucet to fill the mugs with cider. But what comes out is a single drop. Skittles cries out in despair again."AAARRGH! Now I have to wait till next year! AGAIN!" Me and Aj look at each other, then Aj looks at Mac. Mac nods and brings a large barrel out from the barn.
"Now Ah couldn't of forgotten to save some for ya, cider for everyone!" We all cheer as we get our own shares of mugs filled with cider. I get my mug and look at it.
*Eh... Fuck it.* I change into my organic human form and down the bitter sweet, tangy taste of cider. When I finish the mug I remove it from my face and stand there. *Aren't I supposed to be drunk now?* I just continue to stand there. Still fucking nothing, and Aj took notice.
"Ah see yer a heavy wieght! Want some more cider?" She asks with a tone that suggests smugness.
"Eh.. Ok." I give my mug to Mac, who refills my mug and gives it back to me. And once again I down the drink in one gulp. I stand there for a minute, and a slight buzz formed in the back of my head, it makes me wobble a bit. "Ok, now we're gettin' somewhere. More." I hand to mug to Mac, he nods and refills my mug, he hoofs it back to me and I quickly drink all the cider again. At that point I don't remember what happened, last thing I remember was thinking how cute Twi was...
--------->>>>Next morning<<<<---------
I'm stirred awake by light hitting my eyes, I slowly open them to not be blinded by the bright light.
*Wait... Since when is there sunlight in my room?* I pick my head and survey my surroundings. I'm in a blue bed, the comforter covered in stars, I then prop myself up on my elbows. I take a look at my body and see that I'm still human, but naked. I feel movement next and look to my side, Twi's sleeping peacefully, her mane a mess. A content smile on her face, I also noticed that there was a musky smell in the air. *Wait, wait. I'm in Twi's bed, musky smell, the content smile on her and I'm naked. Wha- Oh Shit.* My brain kicks to full speed. *Did I seriously just-* Twi must've awoken and felt me move in her bed, as she rolls over to look at me.
"Mmm Morning Streak." She says rather sleepily. "That was a night to remember."
*Yep, I just fucked a technicolor purple unicorn.* Now, you might be thinking, 'Why aren't you freaking the fuck out? YOU FUCKED A PONY!!'. Let me say this to ya, this is the part of my life were fantasy meets reality. That enough for ya? Yeah? Good. "So, did we... You know... Fuck?" She looks at me with confusion. "Did we have sex." I clarify, she mouths and 'oh' in understanding, she nods.
"Yes, we did."
"Were you a virgin?" She looks at me weirdly, but nods either way. "Was it good?"
"It was amazing. And why with all the questions?"
"Probably because I can't remember anything from last night. And I was a virgin too, and also drunk off my ass."
"Oooohh, that explains a lot."
"Heh, I can only imagine." We both chuckle, but we're interrupted by Flutters rushing into the room.
"Guys! Rainbow's in the hospita-"
Author's Note
I'm thinking about putting certain lines from other stories in here. And who ever guesses one first will have their OC featured in a scene in the story (think of it as a little contest). And that there'll be more than one line from a few stories hidden in each chapter, so more than one person has a chance. And only one hint; every line that is used comes from a story that are in my favorites library, challenge is you don't which story to look in. Tell me what you think about it!
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