Goodlands and Applejack

Princess Celestia looked at his face for a moment, confusion etched on her, "Do i know you?" asked Princess Celestia, perplexed. "You look vaguely familiar."
"You might." he said "It's a lengthy story." replied Goodlands as most of the ponies started gathering around to hear the tale. Pinkie Pie was still eating cake as she listened. "Alas, I'm not sure on several parts, i only had notes to go on, but I'll give my best educated guess." he said sitting down himself. "I come from a place called The Palomino Plains, where my father ruled for some time. He became weak as he continually used his magic to conceal the lands from outside influence. One of those influences was Discord, who was trying to turn all lands into complete chaos. Before he pass though, Discord had vanished, and my father was not faring well."
"Wait a second, you mean to tell me this was before Princess Celestia banished Discord? That would make you like, over a thousand years old." interrupted Twilight.
"Yes, well.." said Goodlands looking off into the distance. He looked up at them once more "my father King Roots, left my older brother Whitehoof and I the ability to look after the Plains, with our old keeper Bluegrass. Things started off well, but soon went down hill." he again stared off into the distance once more.
"At first we did what we could, filling in the role of leadership. We did our best to get along as any siblings do. I tended to spend much of my time in the library, where as my brother for some reason, had our old keeper Bluegrass keep close to me, while he allowed some of his friends to help advise him. Not only did they advise him, but they also helped him learn a different kind of magic, one that was dark and went against my father's teachings. Eventually he became powerful enough that he believed he could look after the plains by himself." he paused for a moment looking up at pegasi clearing the sky.
"Please continue." said Celestia in her motherly voice.
He pulled his vision from the sky, looked back at Celestia then nodded. "I tried to stay out of his way, i spent much of my time studying our father's teachings, of growing crops and tending to the land. I even studied building and repairing, i learned as much as i could." he started to pace back and forth. "I even spent time trying to discover the magic my brother was learning, but again i came up short." he stopped and turned towards them again, "Then one day, this giant "blob" showed up, and started ruining the Plains. My brother came to me, wanting me to relinquish my power to him, but i refused. He became angry, he demanded that i give him my power, but again i refused." he paused lowering his head slightly and sighed.
Looking back up he noticed even the pegasi had landed and were sitting around, starring with wrapped attention, some where still eating cake, but others were waiting, so he continued.
"I immediately started looking into what it was that was destroying my home, but I came to no avail. My brother went out and stopped the creature in its tracks, using the darker magic he'd learned, thus proving he was more then capable of taking care of the lands. Shortly after that he had me banished from the castle, for not helping him, but i believe it was more of a cover, because he started believing that i would try to push him out." several ponies looked at one another then back at him.
"He didn't attack you did he?" asked Applejack quietly.
"He did. He had my title stripped from me, my powers taken from me, and he put me into a Zircon prison."
"A what?" interrupted Twilight.
"A prison made of Crystal. With symbols etched into it to stop one in place and time. I could neither move, age, blink, breath, or do anything, i was stuck in limbo. At least that's what Bluegrass stated it was. Apparently after my brother imprisoned me, he had put me on display, like some sort of statue. He wished to remind every pony of the failure that was his younger brother. For he told every pony that I had ran away while he was tending to the Plains. Bluegrass had seen through this lie, and one night he had taken me out of the plains and left our homelands. He headed to Equestria and found a cave in which he could store me. He spent most of his time studying from any book he could find,visiting several libraries trying to figure out a way that he could break the spell my brother put on me." he sighed once more "Sadly he couldn't figure it out, and that's why I've only just woken up." he said, he was pacing back and forth again.
"That's horrible." said Celestia.
"I agree. Once i woke up, i knew nothing of this land. After leaving that cave i came across Van Hoover, where i hopped on a train and headed out, visiting many places and eventually landed here. I've been staying here in Sweet Apple Acres farm. I do not know what happened to my homelands. " he said wiping his brow "Bluegrass named the blob Coremound. Because of the core being able to absorb that which is around it taking it into itself and creating a body of its own.."
"So that's how you knew to cover it in flower, eggs, and milk. Your brother had already dealt with something like this before. But how did it go from being in the Palomino Plains to here?" asked Twilight.
"Bluegrass believed that my brother froze the core of the Coremound inside my Zircon prison to keep myself, and the mound frozen in time forever. Thus ridding himself of two problems in one go. I believe that the Coremound was absorbing the magic contained in my prison slowly over the years, thus once it became extremely weak i was able to break out of it. I looked all throughout the cave and around the cave, but never found the Coremound's core. After searching for it for some time i believed it to have possibly been destroyed by something already, only to find out once i got here, i was wrong." He stopped pacing and sat back down.
"Well personally I'm glad you had some knowledge of it. It allowed us to quickly get rid of it, and as a result Ponyville only suffered a small amount of damage. Much less then it would have if i had needed time to go and figure out what exactly it was, and how to get rid of it. I'm not even sure i have a book on it." said Twilight looking at Goodlands.
"I bet you do.." said Spike in an undertone.
"I'm also glad you had knowledge on this subject." said Applejack "because of you, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Twilight were all able to get out of this here mess much quicker then they otherwise would have." she said, she then pointed to his hat "and i was wondering why you never took that off. Why didn't you just say you were a 'Unicorn', with a broken horn? Shoot we could have gotten it fixed, i think. Can he get it fixed?" she asked turning to Celestia.
"That I'm not entirely sure. I'd have to look into it, but i believe its possible." Said Celestia.
"I've spent enough time being just a regular pony, that I'm quite at ease with it. Plus i didn't tell you i was a unicorn, because I'm not a unicorn." he said to Applejack, she jerked her back at this.
"Every pony here seen you use your magic, why lie to me about it now? We all already know." she said accusingly.
"I have not lied to you madam. I am not a unicorn, i am in fact a Malicorn." he said using his busted horn to remove his hat and overalls. As he did the group around him could see what looked like stumps sticking out of his back, right where wings would be. Their was a collective gasp from every pony around him.
"Stage gasp." said Spike in a whisper that only Twilight could hear. She glared at him as he looked at her, he turned back as his face became stony.
"A Malicorn.. What the.. is that even possible?" Applejack asked Celestia.
"Well yes Applejack, that's the male form of an Alicorn, though there aren't any left in Equestria." responded Celestia.
"Well we know of at least one." Applejack said pointing to Goodlands who was being inspected by Spike, who was checking his cutie mark. She noticed it too, it was that of an open plain with trees off in the distance and a small pond in front of them. It looked like a painting of sorts.
"When my father passed his powers unto my Brother and I, I was made a prince in his stead, along with my brother Whitehoof. When i was banished from the Plains, he had my horn destroyed and my wings... Well you can see for yourself." he said painfully, as he put his overalls back on, he also lowered his hat back onto his horn.
"I'm sorry Goodlands." said Applejack as she put her hoof on his back.
"it's alright miss." said Goodlands in an undertone.
POP! They all jumped as a loud popping noise hit the air, Discord was standing next to Celestia leaning on her.
"What have i missed?" asked Discord to Celestia.
"Well, that thing there wrecked quite a bit of Ponyville, while you were MIA.. Why didn't you tell us their was a giant blob monster about to attack Ponyville? Or why Fluttershy was no where to be found?" asked Twilight looking dubiously at him.
Discord turned to looked over his shoulder at Fluttershy "OH there you are Fluttershy, I'm so glad you're okay." he pulled a bright blue herb out of thin air and laid it in front of her "for our tea next week." he said smiling.
"Oh, thank you." she said picking it up and placing it under her wing.
"I haven't a clue as to why i couldn't detect that thing." he said looking over at where several ponies were eating cake.
"I believe the magic in the core must have prevented many from knowing about it. Including myself and Discord..." Princess Celestia said looking at him.
"Well if that's the case, i think i need a word with you." he said looking at Celestia, his tone flattening, "A private word if you don't mind." he said looking to where Canterlot was "Shall we..." Discord said turning to Celestia.
"Well." said Celestia, "i hate to have to run but it looks as though I'm needed. I think I'll be heading back up to Canterlot." Princess Celestia said to Twilight, everyone bowed to her and she and Discord took off towards Canterlot.
Twilight turned and looked at Fluttershy "I'm glad you're okay. How long were you stuck in that thing?"
"Oh, well i was stuck in there for only a few days." she said looking embarrassed.
"How have you been eating? What have you been eating?" asked Twilight.
"Carrots and apples. Several birds and Angel have been bringing them to me." she responded.
"Huh, well would you mind stopping by the castle and finding out whats going on with the many birds that have recently taken up refuge there?" asked Twilight to Fluttershy
"Oh, those are the birds i sent to try and collect you. I see that they didn't succeed."
"No they didn't, although they have redecorated the floor. " said Spike with a sour expression.
Their was a collective "EWW!" from the crowd. Then Twilight and Fluttershy took off towards the castle together.
"Well perhaps we should help out around town. Some of these ponies are going to need help restoring their homes, or shops." said Applejack pointing at the destruction caused by the Coremound. Many then nodded and headed off to collect wood for the houses and other materials. Feeling he could help with this, Goodlands headed off with Applejack to help rebuild Ponyville.