The Stronghold family

Sunny drove the truck through PonyVille passing the many colorful shops, houses, and other ponies.

"Wow. This place sure is something."

"You said you just came into town right?"

"That's right. Me and some of my family members."

They passed by Sugar cube corner.

"Will you look at that, there's Applebloom. Hold up Sunny I want to see what's up."

Sunny did so parking the Truck next to the building. Applejack hopped out the truck to see Applebloom sitting on the front steps.

"Hey there Sugarcube. What's the matter now?"

"Nothing. Just bored again is all."

Applejack looked around.

"Where's Sweetiebelle and Scootaloo?"

"Rarity came and took Sweetiebelle to a fashion show. Scootaloo went to go see Rainbow dash. So I'm here.....completely bored. What are you up to?"

"I'm going by a friend's house to pick up some wood to help repair the barn."

"A Friend, huh? Do I know them?"

"Probably not, he's new in town. You wanna come along?"

"Better then sitting out here."

Applebloom followed her sister back to the pickup truck.

"Howdy there. The name's Sunny." Sunny said smiling.

"Hello there."

Applebloom sat in the backseat behind her sister, she leaned up to whisper in her ear.

"Hey doesn't he remind you of Big Mac? Honestly I was about to call him that.

Applejack chuckled to herself as they left Sugarcube corner as well as leaving PonyVille. The whole trip the radio played happy tunes, Applebloom hummed the tune to herself as her sister soon joined in. Their humming even made Sunny tap at the steering wheel to the beat. The truck turned down a valley road leading to a large house on top of a hill.

"Wow. That's a mighty fine home you got there. It's almost as big as the barn." Applejack said stepping out of the truck.

"It's my family's summer villa. Come on I'll show you where we keep the wood." Sunny said taking the baskets of apples out of the back.

The two sisters help carry the apples up the hill, they reached the top before Sunny when they saw an old stallion chopping the wood on top of a tree stump. He seemed to be in his mid 40's with a coat black as night with a gray mane and tail. The old stallion amazingly chopped three logs perfectly at one time! They was about to comment when the old stallion collapsed to the ground.

"Oh my! Applebloom come on! " Applejack said dropping the apples and rushing to the stallion.

"Are you alright sir?" Applebloom asked.

"Huh? What's that? Who's there?" The stallion said.

At this point Sunny came up the hill with the last of the apples. He looked over to see the old stallion.

"Grandpa Bronco! Are you alright?!?" Sunny yelled joining Applejack and her sister help the stallion stand up.

"Yes I'm right as rain. The only problem is why is everyone so blurry?"

"Huh? Oh. Hold up."

Sunny pulled out a pair of glasses from his jean pocket and slipped them onto the stallion's eyes.

"Better?"

"Much. Hey Sunny when did you get here?"

"Grandpa you know you're supposed to be in bed."

"And you should know that a stronghold bronco hates being bed written."

"Grandpa..."

"Now now Sunny. We all do our part around here and I'm proud of you for doing yours on a daily basis. If only your brother could just do the same thing. Speaking of which where is the wee devil?

"I'm sure he's close by, probably in the fields again."

"Good luck finding him (or catching him)."

"Alright. But please get some rest grandpa."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah."

And with that Grandpa Bronco went inside the large villa house.

"He seems like a nice stallion." Applejack said cheerfully.

"Yeah. I just wish he would take it easy on himself nowadays. You know old folks hate being called that,"

"Boy, do I know it."

"Uh-huh." Applebloom agreed.

"Come on. Let's go find my mischievous devil of a little brother. Hopefully he didn't get into any trouble while I was gone."