It was a hot and humid day in the late afternoon with no breeze to speak of and not a cloud in the sky to block the burning heat of the sun shining down on Ponyville and its surroundings. This was because the pegasi on the weather team were in Cloudsdale on their annual holiday. With no one around to maintain the cloud cover work was even harder than usual over at Sweet Apple Acres.
“A little heat isn’t going to stop me from doing my job” thought Big Mac. He did his usual work all around the orchard, whether it was; was fixing a fence, or plowing the fields. Hes paid no attention to the Unicorn walking up the road towards Sweet Apple Acres.
He knew it was just one of Applejacks friends named Eyesight Glitter (or whatever her name was) She was just probably here looking for Applejack.
“Hi Big Macintosh!”said Twilight, looking tired just from the walking to Sweet Apple Acres from the library.
“Howdy Miss Eyesight” greeted Big Mac.
“Big Mac, I moved into town three years ago and you still haven’t learned my name!?” exclaimed Twilight, surprised and somewhat hurt by him never really trying to learn her name.
“Sorry Ma'am.” apologized Big Mac, now starting to walk towards the farm house.
“Oh well, I guess it doesn’t matter. Anyway do you know where Applejack is?” inquired Twilight following Big Mac.
“Eeyup” Big Mac still said nothing more than needed to when talking to anypony.
“Oh that's good! Can you show me where she is? I really need to ask her something.”
“Eeyup” repeated Big Mac.
After walking for twenty minutes, they finally made it to the farm house where they saw Applejack sitting under a nearby tree.
“Howdy Big Mac! Howdy Twilight!” Applejack greeted warmly.
“Hello Applejack.” said Twilight as she started to walk towards the tree Applejack was under.
“Done all my chores for the day, I'm going to go hit the hay.” said Big Mac as he walked lazily off towards the farm house.
“Already? Its only seven in the afternoon. Are you really that tired? declared Applejack astonished.
“Eeyup.”
“Well, I guess I should have seen that coming on account of how hard he was working in today’s heat” observed Applejack. “Anyway what can I do for ya Twilight?”
“Hm! What?......Oh yeah I almost forgot what I came here for.” recalled Twilight, blushing a little because she caught herself watching Big Mac. “Oh yes now I remember! Applejack, would you be able to help me with a experiment? I kind of need some of your trees for it.” Twilight asked,
“Sure thing Twilight when do you need help?” inquired Applejack.
“At midnight tonight if its alright with you.”
“Sure thing”
“Oh and also you wouldn't happen to know where Smarty Pants my doll is I haven’t seen it since the incident. I've asked around for her, but no one else has seen her since then either.” Twilight asked.
“Wait a minute! Did your doll have mismatched eyes and pants that were blue with white polka dots?”
“Yes she did have that!” said Twilight excitedly “Do you know where it is!?”
“Sure do! Big Macs had it ever since it happened.”
“Really?” Said Twilight confusedly
“Yep he sure does loves that doll, he sleeps with it every night. Its almost as if he were under the spell still” Said Applejack
“Maybe Big Mac is still under the influence of that spell I did on the doll. Because he was buried by everyone else when the princess dispelled it. It is quite possible the counter spell didn’t penetrate to him completely.” Said Twilight
“Well do you think that you could possibly remove the spell yourself at this point?” Said Applejack.
"I think so but seeing as he's been under the influence of spell for so long removing the spell wouldn’t do anything really I will just have to erase all his memories relating to the doll instead. And that should leave him just fine.” Said Twilight
“Alrighty then lets go and fix Big Mac and get your doll back”said Applejack already walking towards the house with Twilight following
Just before Big Mac got in bed he reached under his bed to grab the Miss Smarty Pants doll and told her about the work he did today and about how hot and tired he was after all that work. And then about how Twilight came looking for Applejack. Then after a while of talking he drifted off to sleep. All the while in the back of Big Macs mind he knew he was talking to a doll and he knew that it wasn’t really listening or at least he thought it wasn’t. For little did he know that the doll had actually been listening to him. Ever since he had brought that doll home she had actually started to really love how he talked to her like she really was someone, someone that would hold her every night. Someone that she was more than just some raggedy old doll to. Someone that could love her.
“Okay now be sure to be quite, we don’t want to wake Big Mac”said Twilight in a quiet voice that almost anyone within arms length would have struggled to hear but was loud enough for Applejack to hear.
“Okay Twilight you go ahead go into his room and remove the spell or whatever it was that you were going to do while I go ahead and try to grab the doll” said Applejack in a equally quiet voice while she was slowly and quietly opening the door to Big Macs room.
And there laying in his bed was Big Mac peacefully sleeping with Miss Smarty Pants being held in his arms. As Applejack started walking over to where Big Mac slept Twilight began to work on the memory erasure spell making her horn glow purple and also causing Big Macs head also to glow, while Applejack was working on trying to remove the doll from Big Macs arms Twilight went ahead and did a spell also to make sure that Big Mac wouldn’t wake up at all for a hour. So Applejack knowing it was completely safe now to just take the doll out of his she did so without any concern about moving him to much.
And now with the two mares having accomplished what they came in for. They proceeded to head off towards where Twilight needed Applejacks assistance.
The air was humid that night, and the moon was shining brightly. The crickets were out like many other creatures of the night and were completely oblivious towards the two pony’s that were going out and about their business as stealthily as they could manage with hooves. Sneaking around the orchard like Dr Frankenstein and Igor in a graveyard searching, hunting for the perfect spot to conduct the experiment in. Till eventually they came upon a spot in the orchard that had three trees that formed a perfect triangle and had a stump in the middle where they placed the little doll.
“So could you explain to me what is it that we are doing with your Doll and these three apple trees Twilight?”
Said Applejack as she walked around the triangle trying to figure out what was so special about this spot.
“Well Princess Celestia wants me to do a research project on whatever subject that I choose so I thought that maybe I could try and research life transference spells.”
Said Twilight as she mentally ran through the planned procedure in her head.
“Okay then that tells me why we are doing whatever we are doing but that still doesn’t tell me about what we are doing.”
Said Applejack somewhat impatiently.
"We are using this area so that I may try storing a living things life force in a inanimate object and then giving the transferring the life force into another living thing."
Said Twilight as her her horn began to glow with magic also causing the trees and the doll in the center to glow.
Then twilight started to chant “Translatum De vida” over and over again causing the doll to glow brighter and brighter with every repetition of the chant till eventually they could no longer see the doll because of how bright it was. While at the same time the trees that they had setup for the spell all started to wither away. After about 15 minutes of this there was a explosion that came from the doll sending a shock wave out that knocked out Twilight causing the spell to end and only throwing Applejack into a nearby tree.
And from the middle of the trees rose Miss Smarty Pants only now transformed into a living earth pony
“Oh my Celestia! Is this a dream come true!?!?”
Said Miss Smarty Pants shocked and confused at what just happened.
“This has to be a dream!”
Said Miss Smarty Pants excited and teary eyed with the great change of state.
“I've got to go show Big Mac this he will be so happy for me because now I will be able to actually talk to him and get to be with him through out his day!”
Said Miss Smarty Pants as she tried to run the best she could in her newly acquired body, completely ignoring the two injured ponies nearby.
By the time Miss Smarty Pants made it back to the House she was just so tired that when she finally got right next to Big Macs bed she fell asleep right there on the floor next to his bed.
When Big Mac woke he was surprised to see some complete stranger to him, sleeping on the floor next to his bed. At first he tried to wake her up but it was no use she was just to tired to respond at all so he picked her up and put her in his bed. And then he headed downstairs expecting breakfast but instead only finding at the dinner table a bruised and sleepy Applejack next to Twilight who wasn’t looking much better.
“What happened to you two?”
Said Big Mac astonished by the physical state of the two mares.
“Augh! I have a headache and I don’t even know why because it all happened so fast!”
Said Applejack painfully.
“I have a theory but I don’t want to explain right now”
Said Twilight just as painfully.
“Does it have something to do with the mare sleeping in my bed upstairs right now?”
asked Big Mac confusedly.
“Wait WHAT?!?!?!” Said Applejack and Twilight in unison.
“You mean there is some random mare sleeping your bed right now!?!?”
Said Applejack appalled by her brothers words.
“It's not like that Applejack! I just woke up and there she was sleeping on the floor next to my bed I tried to wake her, but she was just to plum tuckered out. So I went ahead and put her in my bed so she'd sleep more comfortably.”
Said Big Mac defensively
