Heroes travels

Big Mac was running as fast as his legs could take him. He watched as the creature opened its mouth at Applejack who tried to pull herself away from it but was still in the creatures grasp.

"Gotta save A.J." he mumbled to himself. His body produced more adrenaline to drive him faster. At his current speed, it would take him about 7 seconds to teach the beast a lesson it wont ever forget.

***

Ashley put down the orange mare. He dusted himself off with his hands while Applejack readjusted her hat.

"So, do ya'll have a name?"

"Names Ashley. You can call me Ash or Toast if you want."

"What kind of nickname is toast?"

"It's a long story that happened during my school years."

Applejack shrugged. A large thudding sound could be heard. Growing louder and louder as it drew closer. Applejack looked around and saw Big Mac running towards them. Ashley could already tell it was another pony coming at him. He turned around to see a much larger pony charging at him.

"Ugh..." Ashley groaned "Can't I meet a pony without being getting hurt physically in the process!?" readying himself into another defensive position. He let the incoming steamroller / pony come towards him.

Ashley tried to roll to the side but Big Mac smashed into his legs. The pain from the impact felt as if the red pony just broke both his legs. Ashley struggled to get back onto his feet but was immediatly tackled by the pony once again. Big Mac stood over Ashley's chest and started to punch him the face with his hooves. The each punch started to make Ashley angrier.

"Yer going to wish you never messed with the Apple family, son." Big Mac yelled, smashing his hoof into the creatures nose. A cracking sound pointed out that he just broke its nose. Blood seeped out and covered Big Mac's hooves

"Bring it on you fucking bitch!" Ashley managed to yell, he put all his strength into a well placed punch into Big Mac's face.

Big Mac flinched in pain. Ashley took this opportunity and used both of his arms to push the pony off him. He wiped his broken nose with the back of his hand. Looking back at it to see it covered in his blood. Even though the barrage of hits he just took. The pain subsided quickly. He stood back up only to be greeted with the back legs of the pony hitting him the chest.

Ashley was sent flying into a nearby tree. A large thud filled the air as Ashley's body fell limb at the base of the tree.

Applejack was shocked at what just happened. She never saw this side of Big Mac. Sure she has seen him be protective against those who threatened his family or mocked them, but he didnt usually resort to violence

"Is it dead?" Applejack asked.

"Ah'm not sure. Ah think mah buck might of knocked it out." responded Big Mac, clutching the area he was punched with his hoof. He made his way over to the creatures body and lifted one of its arms with his hoof. The arm fell limb as soon as Big Mac moved it away "Looks like it."

Big Mac's face was a few inches away from the creatures own. He stared at its features. It's eyes were closed and blood covered its face, bruises could be seen taking their form on its face

"That'll teach it not to mess with us-" Big Mac was interupted by something grabbing his throat

Ashley's hand grabbed hold of  muscular ponies neck "Hehe..." Ashley's eyes shot open "It's my turn now bitch!"

Ashley stood up immediatly, he walked over to the farm gate as he dragged Big Mac behind him by the neck. Big Mac tried to struggle free but everytime he tried, the creatures grip would tighten. Ashley smashed Big Macs chin on the fence several times before pinning him to the ground. He started his barrage of punches on the ponies face.

Applejack done what she thought would be necessary and pushed Ashley off her brother. Ashley hit the ground and got up immediatly, his eyes flared with hatred and frustration

"Don't fucking get involved!" he yelled through clenched teeth.

Big Mac slowly rose to his feet. His face was in agonising pain "Don't ya'll threaten mah sister!" he began charging at the creature.

Ashley moved out the way "You want me? Come get me!" He started his sprint towards Ponyville

"GET BACK HERE!" Big Mac yelled, he started to chase the creature.

Applejack thought it would best to warn her friends. She started to run towards Fluttershy's.

Big Mac was finding it hard to keep up with the creature. It turned out it was very fast and easily overcame obstacles such as falling over small rocks and (when they reached Ponyville) jumping over market stalls. Causing the residents of the town to scream in terror and hide.

***

5 guards which consisted of 2 pegasi, 2 earth ponies and a unicorn were patrolling the streets of Ponyville until they heard screaming

A brown pegasus guard turned to the others "Did you all hear that?"

"sounded like screaming." responded a grey earth pony guard

"...Lets go check it out." said the 3rd of their group who was a white pegasus

All of the group nodded and started their way towards where the screaming orginated from

***

Rainbow Dash was doing her usual, taking a 'well deserved' nap on a cloud that was above the centre of Ponyville. Her eyes darted open when she heard screaming. She looked over the edge of her cloud to see a familiar creature running on its 2 back legs towards the centre, jumping over market stalls and ponies that got to scared to get out of the way and cowered on the floor. Noticing it was Ashley with blood on his face and several bruises, she averted her attention to see what he was running from. The last thing she expected to see was Big Mac charging through the streets after him with blood on his hooves and bruises of his own. She flapped her wings and made her way towards Twilights house and knocked on the door as hard as she could.

***

Callum finished with his bath. His body was relaxed and the scent of sweat was replaced with the scent of flowers which he didnt really like the smell of but it beat sweat anyday. He put his clothes back on and heard knocking at the front door. As he approached the door, a thought came into his mind.

"Wait, if this was Twilight then she would just walk right in." He looked through the open window and saw a familiar rainbow maned pegasus.

"Ugh." Rainbow groaned to herself "Why isn't Twilight answering the door?" she turned around and opened her wings

"Psst."

Rainbow looked around to see what made that noise. She shrugged and resumed to takeoff

"Rainbow, come to the window!" Callum whispered loudly

"Wha-?" she hovered herself next to the window "Callum? what are you doing?"

"Twilight isn't here. I think she went to get a pony named Fluttershy to introduce me to. What's the matter?"

"Well, I was napping on a cloud when I heard screaming. I looked over my cloud and saw Big Macintosh chasing Ashley with blood and bruises on them so I came here to tell Twilight."

"Oh...alright. You better get to Fluttershy's then. FAST."

Rainbow nodded and took to the skies towards Fluttershy's house.

"Whoever that Big Macintosh is..." Callum opened the door and closed it. he noticed ponies running towards (what he thought was) the town centre. He began his sprint "...he's in for a world of hurt."

***

Ashley's run came to a dead end. He looked behind himself to see his opponent aproaching him slowly

"It's all over for ya.'" Big Mac said through his heavy breathing

"What in the name of Celestia is that thing!?"

Both human and pony looked to who spoke. They both gazed upon several guards in their golden armour. All taking their positions infront of Big Mac. The brown pegasus turned to Big Mac

"Im going to have to ask you to stop what you are doing. This...thing will be taken to Canterlot for the princess to see"

"No way. This thing threatened mah sister and it's going to pay fer it. Ya'll can stay outta this one" Big Mac barged past the guards. They all saw the look on his face and the assumed he was about to go nuts. The guards knew that they couldnt hurt an innocent pony without getting into trouble

"How about we help you beat the crap outta this thing and we take it to the princess? It'll make it easier for us if it is unconscious." one of the guards smirked

"That's...not a bad idea." Big Mac responded. The guards walked to the sides of Big Mac, readying themselves for a fight

A crowd had formed to see what was going on. Ponies could be heard asking each other questions like "What's going on?" and "What is that thing?". Some were cheering Big Mac on by shouting his name repeatedly

"Whats this? a 1v6? I must say that this is quite the disadvantage..." a smile grew on Ashley's face.

He looked at the faces of the ponies looking at him. They all said the same thing "It can talk!?"

"...for you." putting himself into another defensive stance. He motioned his opponents to come at him with his hand. "So...Who is willing to commit the first strike?" he smiled

The horn of the unicorn guard started to glow a faint yellow. A bright yellow beam was shot towards Ashley who tried to move to the side but the beam barely hit his arm in the process. The impact area of skin felt as if it was melting. Ashley clutched it in pain with his hand.

"Oh now it's on!" Ashley yelled through his clenched teeth as he recovered from the blast.

The two pegasi guards flew at Ashley in the attempt of knocking him down. Ashley foresaw this and timed when to strike, grabbing the necks of the two pegasi. He smashed the back of their heads onto the cobblestone floor. The sound of metal hitting rock filled the air. Ashley lifted both guards by their necks and started to spin round, gaining more momentum to send the guards into the walls of nearby buildings. One hit a a nearby market stall, making it collapse ontop of him while the other guard went face first into a wall, making him fall unconcious

***

Callum made his way to the centre and was greeted by the huge crowd that was watching the fight take place. Nearby pegasi sat on clouds, some were eating popcorn while some cheered on the guards and Big Macintosh who was trying to recover as much energy as possible. He saw a unicorn in armour in the area of the fight shoot a yellow beam towards Ashley. He noticed his friend grab hold of his own arm as the beam barely hit

"Excuse me, do you mind getting out of my way?" Callum asked to a dark blue unicorn with a black mane whos attention was on the fight taking place

"Fat chance of that happening" replied the unicorn, rolling his eyes before focusing on the battle.

"We can do this 2 ways, either you step out my way or I force you out my way"

"Look, I already said i'm not moving pal now ju-" the unicorn turned round, a large creature stood before him that looked like similar to the one in the fight, give and take a few features. It stared into his eyes. His blood ran cold as he moved out of the way. Ponies that were infront of him turned around to see what was going on and either gasped or stayed silent as they move out the way to make a path for the creature to the fight.

"It wasn't that at all now was it?" Callum said as he made his way through the crowd.

Callum walked up behind the unicorn guard who was trying to shoot his beam at Ashley without hitting his teammates.

"And what the fuck do you think you are doing?"

The unicorn went to turn his head but Callum wrapped one of his arms around the guards neck and pulled it towards his chest

"I wonder what your life would be like if I was to rip off your horn and break all your limbs..." he whispered into the guards ear

"Now you have a choice. You can leave this fight now and watch what happens or I do what I just said. You have five seconds."

The guard tried to get Callum to release him but beating his hooves into the creatures arm but this only caused the grip around his neck to tighten.

"Four..."

The guard tried once more, he was starting to choke due to the lack of oxygen.

"Three..."

The guard's head felt as if it was about to explode.

"Two..."

The guard used his last breath of oxygen to speak.

"F-fine..just lemme go!"

Callum released the unicorn and let him drop to the ground. The sound of metal hitting rock grabbed the attention of Big Macintosh and the 2 remaining earth guards as well as Ashley. The unicorn guard was pulled away by the crowd. The guard struggled to get his breath back. His body felt light due to the lack of oxygen in his muscles.

"Right...NOW WHO THE FUCK IS BIG MACINTOSH?!" Callum yelled.

Several ponies attention was diverted to the large red stallion who was shaking in fear

"You." Callum pointed at Big Mac "Get. The. FUCK OVER HERE NOW!" he pointed to the ground infront of him

Big Mac gulped, slowly made his way to the creature with his head hung low. As he reached the destination, he noticed the sound of metal hitting rock twice. He looked back to see the creature he was fighting with standing over the 2 earth pony guards who were trying to crawl away.

"Pathetic excuses for authority." Ashley smiled as he made his way to Callum, clutching the wound from the attack of the unicorn

"How you holdin' up Ash?"

"I've had worse." he pointed to Big Mac who was watching both creatures in fear "This one actually put up a good fight."

"Well I have plans for him." Callum kneeled himself down to Big Macs hieght to make eye contact "I hope you know how to live without the use of your legs because your about to be in some serious fucking pain." a twisted smile started to form on Callum's face.

Ashley put his hand onto Callum's shoulder "This is between me and him. Thanks for stopping that asshole." he pointed to the guard who just got his breath back and was struggling to stay on his hooves.

Callum stood back up "Alright, what you gonna do with him?"

Ashley kneeled down, he put his face next to Big Mac's ear and whispered "Tell me, why did you start hitting me?"

Big Mac stayed silent, he felt 'Ash' poke him in the chest. "Ah thought you were gonna attack mah sister." he mumbled quietly

"So that's what this is all about?" he whispered, he held his hand out to Big Mac who stared at it "Well...this is kinda awkward but i'm sorry for all the punching and stuff and calling you names. I would feel much better if you accept my apology"

"Ah guess ah'm sorry for jumping to the first thing that came to mah mind. It's just that ah had to protect my sisters..." he whispered once more, tears started to form in the red stallions eyes.

"Don't start cryin'. I know exactly how you felt. I feel it everytime someone threatens or mocks those I care about" he whispered before standing back up and turned to the crowd and yelled "This is all been a misunderstanding. Leave now."

None of the ponies moved an inch

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!" Callum yelled.

The crowd started to disperse, some of the crowd went to help the guards and took them to the hospital to tend their injuries. The unicorn guard followed with the support of a colt and a mare. Ponies could be heard talking about the fight and saying who would of one. It turned out some of the ponies made bets with each other but neither side won so they got to keep their bits.

The humans brought their attention back to Big Mac who was sitting on his haunches, putting a small amount of pressure onto a bruise on his face before pulling the hoof away in pain

"Well...lets see the damage. Not only did we just scare everyone here and show them that we know how to fight. We also attacked the local authority who will comeback with a vengence not to mention we are going to have to explain what happened this to Twilight and the others" Ashley said, rubbing the back off his head with his hand.

Big Macintosh stood up and tried to walk, his legs were too tired from the distance he ran and made him collapse.

"I think we should just wait here for a while. Im pretty sure the word of what happened will reach Twilight."

said Callum, sitting himself down on the cobblestone.

Big Mac and Ashley nodded in agreement and made themselves as comfortable as possible to regain their strength

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around 20 minutes after the fight ended. Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Applejack arrived to the town centre. They saw Ashley, Callum and Big Mac talking to each other.

"I wonder what they are talking about..." Twilight said to herself but was heard by her 3 friends

"What ah don't understand is that how that 'Ashley' could take a buck from Big Macintosh and still get back up."

As they grew closer, they could see the injuries on Ashley and Big Mac. The 2 humans and stallion started laughing together. Presumably to a story Big Mac was telling them about the females and them turning crazy with lust at a specific time of the year and how he managed to escape. Callum thought Big Mac was lying but laughed anyway while Ashley kept a mental note...just in case.

"How the hay!?" shouted Rainbow Dash whos yell wasn't loud enough for the humans and stallion to hear "Last time I checked. Big Macintosh looked like he was going to kill Ashley."

"Maybe they settled their differences?" Fluttershy suggested

"Maybe...but we should still find out what what's going on." Twilight answered as her 3 friends and herself appoached Ash, Callum and Big Mac.

Big Mac saw the 4 mares approach the humans from behind with looks of confusion on their faces "Hey there sis" he waved with a smile on his face "And howdy Twilight, Rainbow and...Fluttershy" he nodded to the three other mares. He gave a light blush (which was well hidden due to his coat colour) when it came to Fluttershy.

Callum turned around to see the 4 ponies behind him. Ashley however saw Big Mac give a small blush when he mentioned Fluttershy

"Wait...does he have feelings for her?" he thought to himself and shrugged "I'll ask him some other time."

"Hey Big Mac." Applejack returned the wave. The look of confusion still staying on her face "Do ya mind tell me what the hay happened?"

Big Mac looked towards Ashley who shrugged at him

"Well...this is what happened..." Big Mac started the story