TCSW Side Story: The Stone Guardian

Prologue: On the way home.

Antaeus found himself running, again. Of course the school bullies had to choose him as their target today. They couldn't take the day off, they couldn't just check their accounts and find that they already had their bullying quota met for the day and decide to just go home. They'd rather be chasing him across town then do anything else.

Antaeus ran as fast as his hooves could carry him and turned around the corner. "If I was a unicorn, this would be the part I would use some awesome spell and laugh gloriously in triumph, but noooooo. I had to be born an earth pony, miss the line where they were handing out horns." he muttered. Around the corner, he saw a pony reading a newspaper on a public bench. Anteous formed a plan and pulled from his school saddle bag a pair of Groucho Marx glasses.

With a leap he quickly took the newspaper from the pony, despite her protests. He promised her silently that he would pay the random mare back as he quickly messed with his mane so that it covered his forehead as he turned a second corner

Three fillies came darting around the corner. Confusion spread across their collective face as the stared down the street, their target had miraculously vanished. One of the fillies shouted "Shoot! We lost him in the crowd!"

The biggest of the trio back hoofed her company. "Idiot! How could we lose him in a crowd if there are only three ponies on the street!?! He must be hiding!"

The smallest of the band then stated, "Maybe, we should ask somepony if they saw where he went."

The leader, ignoring his team member then shouted "Maybe we should ask somepony if they saw where he went!"

"I just said that-"

"Quit whining and go ask that pony over there." The filly grumbled and approached the pony reading a newspaper that was completely unfolded. The filly could barely see the pony hiding behind the newspaper and doubted he could have seen anything beyond the paper, but she dare not disobey the boss.

"Excuse me, have you seen a light brown colt with a black mane run through here?"

The stranger looked up from behind the paper, revealing that he had thick glasses and the bushiest eyebrows and mustache that the trio had ever seen. "I believe you're going to have to be more specific"

Not deterred by the stallion’s appearance, the bully replied, "He's a scrawny light brown earth pony with a mark on his forehead. You can't miss him."

"Ah yes, I believe he went that way."

The leader of the gang then exclaimed in victory, "Alright, we have him now. Let's go!"

The three then started off in hot pursuit of their target. When the three were out of sight, Anteous finally found it safe to lift off his glasses. "That actually worked? They must be dumber then a bag of hammers."

An annoyed sound startled the colt and he turned around to find an angry mare staring him down. "I believe you took something of mine." The colt gave a sheepish grin as he handed back the paper to the mare. She sighed and stated. "I'll let you off the hook this time. But, you do something like that again, bullies will be the least of your worries" Anteous gulped as the mare took the paper and mumbled to herself, "Now I can finally see how the Mare-iners did."

Anteous then awkwardly snuck away. When he was the mare was out of ear shot, he quietly celebrated his victory over his oppressors. "Name. Dr. Free. Dr. Scott Free. No autographs."

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"Mom!" Anteous shouted as he entered the store. The young colt slumped his saddlebag on the store counter, exhausted from his earlier escapades. "I'm home."

"Hey, you’re just in time. Could you come help me in the back?" Anteous gave a small grin as he left his things on the counter and went to meet his mother in houses garden. He found his mother was watering their flowers. The yellow unicorn was humming a little tune as she took care of the plants. She turned her head and smiled, "Could you please hose down the statue, I'm afraid the birds have gotten it again."

Anteous gave small grown, "It always gets like this. Can't I clean it tomorrow?"

The mare let out a sigh, "No. We have some major clients coming to the shop to buy flowers for their wedding. It won't be good for business to have the first thing that they see be covered in pigeon paint." Anteous reluctantly went and grabbed the hose and started to spray the statue down as her mother went back to her work.

The colt grumbled as he cleaned the statue. It was the third time this week that he had to clean the stupid thing, as the colt swore that the local birds had decided that it was going to be their outhouse. The grey statue stood dripping wet, once again restored to the clean image of a unicorn stallion looking proud, about to walk forward. His mother had always joked that his dad could never sell his master piece, but the Anteous darkly thought they should have sold it for rubble a long time ago.

His mother then spoke up after he was done cleaning the statue. "So, how was your day?"

He replied curtly, "Fine, Mom."

"You weren't chased by those bullies again, were you?"

"Don't worry Mom. I can outrun those bozos and diffidently outsmart them any day of the week."

"I just don't want see you come home with a bloody nose. I can't believe the school hasn't taken action and caught these foals." The mare exasperated as she spoke, "Just because they are the mayor's kids, it doesn't make them exempt from the rules." The mare gave a small stamp on the ground as she spoke to emphasis her point.

"Really Mom, I'll be alright. I can handle a couple of bullies just fine." To emphasis his point, the colt puffed out his chest and gave his best confident grin he could must.

The mare gave a giggle at the sight. "O.K. tough guy. How bout we go upstairs and have dinner. What do you say about having spaghetti tonight?"

"Heck ya!" The mare laughed as the two headed up the stairs to fix dinner.

"Catch those trees!" The chief of police died a little inside as he said those words. Officers gave chase down the street, the bewilderment of the predicament not fully gone.

Ahead of the army of cops, raced two trees carrying a rather large wooden desk down the road. At second glance, one could see the ponies’ faces and hooves as they stuck out from the ridiculous costumes. Ponies got out of their way as they ran down the streets of the small town, most stared and the strange sight before their eyes, others busted out laughing at the ridiculousness of the situation.

The pegasus of the pair started to analyze their situation. "Touch."

"Yes Go?"

"Why are stealing the mayor's desk again?"

"Why, it's quite simple my dear. The mayor Undertable Deal's desk represents many things. Power, wealth, and sitting behind a mayor's desk implies that your smart and you know what you’re doing. By stealing the desk, we have essential stolen those idea's!"

"Wow! That's amazing!"

"That's not all, by taking this desk, we take away the wall that separates the mayor from his people. He can no longer sit behind his desk and do nothing anymore!... Mainly because he has no desk anymore."

"You're so smart Touch!" The pegasus exclaimed to her earth pony partner.

"I know!" Touch replied back, with a big grin on his face.

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Notes

This story will not affect the overall plot of The Chronicles of Star Well.

It is meant only to be a way to expand the universe and to tell characters stories that could not fit the main story without making it confusing and deluded.

This story is not necessary for TCSW, but I thought you might like it anyway.