My Big Human Brother

Chapter 3: To Take Care of Scammers

I wipe the sweat off my forehead and smiled at Will. "It's so good to have a big brother around!" I say, smiling. Will sighs, chuckling to himself.

"To you maybe," he mutters.

"Hey, I'm not that bad!" I say as he starts laughing. We both stop as we hear a machine. Oh no... I thought. I recognize this sound. Will looks at me with a confused look.

"What's going on?" He asks.

"Them Flim Flam brothers," I say exasperatedly. He raises an eyebrow when a familiar train comes up. A red carpet is rolled out by a robotic hand and two stallions walk out of the train. Both of them were lime colored, and had a red and white mane. One brother had a mustache. Both of them had a similar cutie mark. One brother had a whole apple with a piece missing, but the other brother had an apple piece that seems to be able to fit into the other brother's cutie mark. "What do you two want now?" I ask, tiredly. The brothers smile at each other.

"Why, to ask for some apples," Flim said smoothly. Flam nods.

"Mostly for some scam I bet," I continue. Flam mockingly gasps.

"Whatever made you think of that?" He asks, smirking.

"I dunno who you are, but you better get off my lil' sis' farm," Will says, frowning. The Flim Flam brothers ignore Will.

"The apples are for our new and improved Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 7000!" Flim says dramatically.

"What's the difference?" I ask.

"Why, the difference is that the new SSCS 7 can produce cider much, much faster than the old one! But of course, we decided not to keep it," Flam says sadly.

"How should I know it's not a scam?" I ask.

"We'll show you!" Flim said. Flim and Flam instantly glow their horns green, and the funnel starts sucking up apples. Will and I watched closely as the machine starts whirring rapidly, and barrels started flying up. The brothers quickly cut off their magic and then smirked as I stood with my jaw to the ground. Will is stunned as well and rubs his eyes. There were at least twenty barrels stacked, and it only took half a minute. I squinted at the brothers.

"What's the trick?" I ask. The brothers smirk.

"Nothing Bloomy my dear, in fact, we will give it to you for free!" Flim said. I shook my head. I walk to the barrels and look inside to see the cider there, all freshly made. Will sighs as he walks to a barrel as well. I wave my brother over and started whispering.

"Something's up," I whisper to him.

"Yeah, I don't trust these guys," he whispers back. I sigh and look at him.

"Go check out the machine itself, I'll go and divert their attention," I said. Will nods and leaves to the machine, but I go over to the brothers.

"Well, me and my brother are considering it," I said.

"Wait, the human is your brother?" Flim asks with a raised eyebrow. Flam starts chuckling.

"Yeah, why?" I ask.

"Oh nothing, it's just that humans are usually stupid, in our eyes anyway," Flam says. I give a glare.

"Don't you dare make fun of him," I said. The brothers smirk. Before I could say more, Will comes out.

"Alright, it's clean," he said. The brothers suddenly went pale when they realized where Will looked. "Hey Applebloom, let's let the brothers stay a moment, because since they are so nice, I'll go advertise their Super Squeezy Cider Speedy thingamabob and everyone will know how nice they are," he said, smirking. The brothers tug their shirts nervously.

"N-no need!" Flim says. I give a confused look.

"But of course, you're right, there is no need since it's not even a working machine!" Will continues, yelling the last part. I ran to where he is and gasped when I look at the 'machine'. There was almost nothing in it, except a few empty apple cider barrels and a few worthless gears. The most this thing could do was drive. "All it did was just sit here while the brothers acted it did something by levitating the barrels out of it," Will finished. He crosses his arms and looks at the brothers furiously. "The only truth about this thing is that it isn't worth any money!"

"... Well, Flim did you hear that? I think it's opportunity in the next town again!" Flam said, pretending he hears something. Flim and Flam jumped to their machine and drove off. I grumbled as they left, hoping they won't even show their faces again. Will sighs and turns to me.

"Look on the bright side, they left all their cider," Will said. I smirked.

"Yeah, there's gonna be more cider to go around now!" I said. We both laugh. We brought the cider to Granny Smith and told her what happened, making her laugh. I think today, was an awesome day!

I sighed as I was going off to bed. Today was sure busy, and it was fun too. I look at Will's bedroom door and smile. I'm so glad I have Will as a big brother. Granny Smith and I agreed that Will could sleep in Big Mac's room. I didn't like it really, but I didn't want Will sleeping on the couch. I went to my room, and smiled as I went to sleep on my bed. I think that Will is the best brother I could ever ask for. Beside Big Mac of course.