Chapter 23

I groan and roll over to my right where I reach for my phone to turn it off since the alarm I set for 6am starts going off. I pat the top of the nightstand with my hand searching for the device since my eyes are closed due to me still being groggy. Once found, I press the snooze button and sit up from my bed and rub my eyes to get the sleep out of them. I slowly but surely open my eyes and look out the window to see that the moon was about to set and the sun about to rise.

Before I get ready for my first day at my new job and Applejacks farm, I lazily stand up from my bed and fish through my jacket pocket for the document she gave me. I place the paper on the nightstand and reached for the quill pen that was conveniently there. Since my eyes were still waking up I created a small orb of Ki with my left hand for light and began filling out the document. It was boring information like my name, date of birth, gender, age, and I read the fine print that listed the policies and rules necessary to follow to work at Sweet Apple Acres. Not bothering to waste time reading the whole thing, including the fact that I still had to get ready, I just skimmed it and wrote my signature at the bottom. Nodding in satisfaction, I folded the document and tucked it back in my jacket pocket and dissipated the orb of Ki.

I then gathered up my clothes, belongings, and Power Pole, cause why not, and made my way to the door of my room and proceeded to open it. Before I did I recalled the last time I opened my door without warning so not wanting a recap and also not wanting to flash poor Twilight again, I slowly opened the door and peeked outside to see if anyone was awake. Thankfully no one was and I could hear Spike snoring and mumbling something about stuffing his snout with tasty gems, whatever that meant. I tiptoed towards the bathroom and was about to open the door, when suddenly it started to open by itself.

Oh shit! I think.

With quick reflexes, I shot up to the ceiling and hovered in mid air with my bare back pressing against the cold wood making me flinch in discomfort since I was still in my boxers. I held my breath and looked back down and saw Twilight exit the bathroom as she turned off the light. Guess I didn’t see the light since I was still half asleep. As she walked back to her bedroom, I noticed she for some reason had quite a bright blush on her face. I could also tell she was breathing a bit more heavily which made me arch a brow in confusion.

Ok that’s weird, what could she have possibly been doing in there? Did she have an upset stomach or something? I think with a curious expression.

I waited for Twilight to step completely in her room and close the door before I descended to the floor and released my breath before heading into the bathroom. I placed my clothing and belongings on the counter and gently shut the door and turned the light back on. I was about to take a quick rinse in the shower and brush my teeth, when I caught a wiff something strange in the room. It smelled oddly like strawberries yet it it was slightly more sour. The strangest thing is the more I smelled it the more my body began to warm up uncomfortably.

Before I pulled the curtain away for a cold shower to cool myself down, the corner of my eye saw something making me turn my head. One of the towels on the small shelf next to the shower tub was a little uneven than the rest. I would’ve just ignored it but sometimes the neat freak in me just won’t let these kind of things go. So I reluctantly reached over to adjust the towel, only for something to slip out from the folds and on the floor with a light thump.

My eyes widened and I was frozen in place since I had just caught a mere glimpse of what had just fallen out of the towel. Though I so desperately wished it was just my imagination, unfortunately a glimpse was all I needed before the object left my field of vision to know what it was. What’s worse is it was on the floor next to my damn foot just daring me to look down at it. I closed my eyes and took in a deep breath only to forget the strange odor in the air was still lingering so I just breathed in a whole lot of it making my body even more uncomfortably warm, especially a certain area in my lower body that was instantly reacting much to my displeasure.

Please don’t be what I think it is, please don’t be what I think it is, please don’t be what I think it is… I repeat in my head.

I exhale deeply as I look down to the floor with my eyes still shut. I very hesitantly opened one eye to see my feet…and the object I was actually praying I wouldn’t see next to my right foot making me open both my eyes in absolute shock as I started blushing up a fucking storm making my face look like a damn tomato. There, laying on its side, was a motherfucking pink dildo…

“What in the actual fuck…?” I whisper in disbelief.

It felt like hours had passed and I was just standing in the middle of the bathroom staring at a fucking pink equine dildo that was laying next to my foot. I was speechless, I mean how the hell could I possibly respond to this? Scream in horror? Jump back and risk making a loud sound? Destroy the damn thing?! Despite all this, my mind was slowly piecing all that had transpired within the last five or so minutes. Twilight up this early, bright blush, heavy breathing, strange scent in the bathroom, the dildo…

“Holy shit, was she…getting off?!” I whisper to myself, “Then…that means…this is hers…”

To be completely honest I could’ve been slightly turned on at this discovery had it not been for my shocked state, and it’s not because of the slight boner that was starting to increase in size through my boxers. Shaking my head to desperately regain my composure, I looked at my watch that was on its side so I could see what time it was. Thankfully it was only 6:15am so not much time had passed since this whole thing started. Part of me just wanted to get ready as quickly as possible and just leave but if I did, Twilight would know I saw her “toy” and call me out on it which would be a very awkward conversation I’d very much rather avoid. Hell, it’d probably be worse if Spike walked in here and saw the damn thing which would be even more awkward.

So with great reluctance, I reached over to the toilet and pulled some toilet paper and covered my left hand with it. I slowly reached down and picked up the “toy” with the tips of my fingers and lifted the towel on the shelf with my right hand placed it back underneath. After making sure it looked like it was never disturbed, I threw away the toilet paper covering my hand after unrolling it and washed my hands with a fury while almost squishing the bar of soap between my hands.

Afterwards I hopped in the shower with my toothbrush and toothpaste, turned the knob as cold as possible, quickly rinsed my body, brushed my teeth with lightning speed before turning off the water, dried myself hard with my towel leaving small towel burns, threw on my clothes, stuffed my belongings in my pockets, grabbed my Power Pole, and dashed out of the bathroom as silently as I could. I flew down toward the door so I wouldn’t wake anyone up with my footsteps and slowly opened the door while still hovering and floated outside and shut the door.

I turned around and saw the no one was awake yet, except a couple of mail ponies I saw in the distance of town, and I took the the skies. I pulled out the document since it also had a map on how to get to Sweet Apple Acres, which wasn’t hard to find since I could already see the massive amounts of apple trees in the distance which meant that’s where I was supposed to go.

But before I could fly any further, I had to find someway to vent my suppressed emotions. The only things I could see in the skies were fluffy clouds. If only I could actually touch them it’d make a great punching bag. So I continued my flight thinking I could just fly right through a cloud that was in my way, only to actually run into it like it was solid. Shocked, I flew back and stared at the cloud curiously. Surely this wasn’t possible, clouds aren’t supposed to have any mass yet I flew right into one. I floated towards the cloud and place my hand on it. It felt like I was grasping the softest pillow in existence. With more curiosity, I flew above the cloud and pondered about doing something that would either make me look foolish or would help ease my nerves.

I wonder… I think.

Bracing myself, I canceled my Ki and fell towards the cloud thinking I’d fall right through only to simply land on top of it with a slight bounce. I jumped in place and sure enough it felt like I was literally standing on a pillow.

Wow, who knew I could stand on clouds? I wonder how I’m able to do this? This kinda feels like I’m standing on The Flying Ninbus, I think.

I glance at my watch and see it’s almost 6:30am so I shook my head and jumped up in the air and continued my flight towards the vast array of apple trees. While I was flying, I felt like I was being followed so I stopped and turned around only to see clouds. I flew off again and I got the same feeling making me stop again only to be see the same clouds.

Who or what the hell is following me at this hour? I think.

Instead of just turning around, I decided to fly backwards to see if I could see something. All of a sudden, much to my own shock, one of the clouds starts to move on it’s own and flies after me. I immediately stop and it does too as I hover over to it. I hold out my hand and begin to test a hypothesis I’m kinda hoping I’m right about.

“Flying…Nimbus?” I say to the cloud. The cloud seemed to respond to my call as it hovers over to my hand making me smile with joy.

“Holy shit! THE Flying Nimbus?! How the hell did this thing get here? Could Queen Faust have created you and sent you as well? Not that I’m complaining but hot damn, this is so cool!” I beam with delight. I then hop on my newly acquired Flying Nimbus and squeeze it a bit with my hands.

“Alright, Flying Nimbus, to Sweet Apple Acres! Full speed ahead!” I command. Flying Nimbus responds by launching itself towards the farm with me on top as I’m laughing all the way toward our destination.

I was sitting happily on my new companion as we were soaring through the air. I glanced down at my watch and saw it was a little after 6:30am so I had just enough time before the sun began to rise. I look over the edge of Nimbus and see rows upon rows of apple trees.

“Wow, Applejack’s family looks after all this? Color me impressed,” I said.

I look back straight forward and see the farmhouse itself come into view. In front of the farmhouse were two familiar ponies bringing out stacks of baskets and putting them on a large wooden wagon. While they were distracted, I got a funny idea on how I might surprise them making me smirk.

“Nimbus, fly down as close as you can without revealing me and just hover there,” I instructed the cloud. Nimbus then flies over the two older Apple siblings and slowly descends over them. I scrunch my body by bringing my knees up to my chest as I barely peer over the edge.

“Ok stop, now just wait right here,” I whisper to Nimbus once we’re just about 20 feet above them. Applejack and Big Mac continue to bring baskets out of the barn and when Applejack puts down her stack of baskets she pulls out her phone to check the time.

“Hmm, Ah wonder what’s takn’ Will so long? Ya think he overslept?” She asks Mac.

“Nnope,” he answers.

“Yeah, Ah don’t think so either. He’s probably takn’ his time tryn’ to get a lay of the land is all,” she said.

“Eeyup,” Mac responds again.

“Ya don’t think he said he’d come work for us and and lied about, did he?” She asks now slightly worried.

“Nnope,” Mac answers.

“Yeah Ah guess you’re right. Besides, he was telln’ the truth anyway. But Ah still would like ta know what’s takn’ him so-“

“HOWDEY!” I shout while poking my head through Nimbus.

“LANDSAKES!” Applejack yelps.

“EEYUP!” Mac shouts as he drops his stack of baskets.

I immediately start laughing pull my head back up and I’m tossing and turning on Nimbus as it lowers to the ground. I sit up still laughing to see Applejack and Mac staring at me with surprised expressions which only makes me laugh more.

“Hahahahahaha, oh man! You should see your faces!,” I beam. Applejack furrows her brows and marches up to me in a huff and grabs me by the arms and pulls me toward her making me stare directly in her eyes.

“Ah’ve got half a mind to buck you into next week if ya don’t fess up as to why ya scared us half ta death,” she scowls. I calm my laughter and gently take her hands from my shoulders while smiling innocently.

“Oh come on Applejack, it’s just a harmless prank,” I defend, “besides no pony got hurt right? I just thought I’d make my first day of work here more memorable.” Applejack’s expression softens and starts to smile a bit at my words.

“Ya mean you’re actually here for tha job?” She asks.

“Yup,” I said while pulling out the document, “I wouldn’t be up this early if I wasn’t. I told you I’d be here dark and early and I meant it.”

I hand her the document and she unfolds it to read the information I wrote down. Her smile widens and she the tucks the paper in her back pocket and offers me her hand with a welcoming smile.

“Well then welcome ta tha family, partner!” She said. I smile back and hop off Nimbus and shake her hand. Mac shakes his head and I thought he’d be next to lay into me but he just walks up to me and pats me on the back while nodding along with Applejack. They both then finally notice the cloud behind me just floating there making them arch a brow.

“Oh right, I’d like you two to meet a new companion I had just met this morning. Meet the Flying Nimbus,” I introduce.

“Flying?” Applejack said.

“Nimbus?” Mac said instead of no or yes.

“Ah don’t mean to be rude Will, but ain’t that just a cloud? Speaking of which, how the hay were you even able to stand on it in tha first place? Can humans walk on clouds to like pegasi?” Applejack asks.

“No, this cloud is special. It’s a flying cloud that kinda has a will of its own and can fly me anywhere I please, kinda like an air taxi but much faster,” I explain.

“Ah see, but y’all can fly just fine on yer own. Why do ya need somethin’ like this cloud for?” She asks.

“True I can fly on my own no problem but now that I’ve got the Flying Nimbus there’ll be times when I can just rest and let it do the flying for me,” I said.

“Alright, Ah don’t quite get it but Ah’ll take yer word for it,” she said.

“Eeyup,” Mac said.

I nod back and turn to my Ninbus Cloud, “Alright Nimbus, you go on and hover in the sky somewhere and wait for my call ok?”

The cloud responds by flying away from me into the sky until it became part of the other clouds and vanishing from my sight. I turn around and see Applejack’s and Mac’s bewildered faces as they stare up into the sky. I then hear a rooster call from the top of the barn and the sun starts to rise and the moon begins to set.

“Alright enough gawking at the clouds you two, so what’s first in the agenda?” I ask snapping them out of their trance. Applejack smiles again and nods to Mac who picked up the wagon hitch and pulls it up over his shoulders.

“Follow us, partner,” Applejack said, “we got a long day ahead of us!” I chuckle as I take off my jacket and tie it around my waist and follow the Apple siblings towards the acres of trees. As the sun rises higher, I smile and put a bit of a skip in my step because of how much I’m looking forward to working here.

First day of work, here I go, I think.

Four and a half hours later

For over four hours I’ve been helping Applejack and Big Mac gather all the apples from each tree in the vicinity of the acres. I surprised them sometimes when I showed them I could carry just as many baskets of apples as Big Mac, sometimes I’d test myself and carry a few more baskets to see how strong I am. To my delight I was able to carry three to four large baskets of apples on each of my arms and place them back on the wagon. They were even more surprised when I was able to pull the wagon back to the farmhouse with ease. I can see why both Applejack and Mac were a bit more of a muscular physique than the rest of the ponies in Ponyville since this is what they do every day.

“Alright boys, break time!” Applejack said.

Mac and I place the last of the baskets in the wagon before walking over to Applejack who was leaning on one of the trees with a smaller picnic basket in her hands. She reaches in the basket and pulls out a sandwich with daffodils and hands it to Mac. She then pulls out another sandwich wrapped in napkins and hands it to me.

“Ah had this one special made fer you, Will,” she said.

Smiling I unwrapped the sandwich and I was a little surprised to see the sandwich had cheese and salami.

“Applejack, is this?” I ask.

“Yup, I figured since y’all eat more than just fruits and greens I’d fix somethin’ special for ya.” She said.

“But where did you get the meat?” I ask.

“There’s a small shop on the far side of town owned by a couple of griffins who moved here a while back. When Ah told them about you they seemed pretty excited to know there’s another meat eater in town and they told me ta tell you ta go visit them whenever y’all have a chance,” she said.

There’s a meat shop in town? Didn’t expect that around here, I think.

“Thanks a bunch Applejack, you didn’t have to do this but thanks anyway,” I said.

“Aw shucks sugercube, yer mah friend and Ah always do what Ah can for mah friends. Also y’all can just call me AJ,” she said.

I nod as I take a bite of my sandwich, which was pretty good since the salami had just the right flavor. It probably had more flavor than the normal stuff I used to buy at the store back home so whoever these griffins were they certainly knew how to prepare the meat. As we’re eating, the sun started to beat down on us making me wipe my forehead every so often and fan myself with my shirt. AJ notices my antics and giggles as she hands me a canteen of water.

“Ah guess it’s a little warmer than ya thought huh?” She asks.

“It sure is, but that’s what happens when you’re out here working like this every day right?” I said after taking a drink.

“Eeyup,” Mac says as he finishes his sandwich. I then finish mine and untie my jacket and drape it over the side of the wagon and proceed to take my shirt off and drape it next to my jacket.

“Ah, much better,” I say while stretching my arms out and letting the slight breeze blow on my bare chest.

“*whistles* Well Ah’ll be Will, Ah kinda figured y’all were fit but Ah wasn’t expectin’ this,” Mac said.

I turn to him and cross my arms with a smirk. “So you can say more than two words,” I tease.

“When Ah want to,” I retorts, “mind if Ah join ya?”

“By all means,” I said. Mac nods as he takes off the shirt under his overalls and drapes it next to my shirt and also stretches as the breeze blows on him too. I turn my head to see AJ staring at me wide eyed as she was in mid chew of her own sandwich with quite the impressive blush across her muzzle. I smirk and lean over the Mac.

“Hey, watch this,” I whisper. I step towards AJ and flex my arms and chest a bit. “You enjoying the show AJ?” I tease.

AJ swallows her bite a little too quick and coughs a bit as her blush brightens. Mac laughs out loud and I chuckle as I walk over and pat her on the back to help her stop choking.

“Easy there AJ, wouldn’t want you to hurt yourself,” I said.

AJ turns to me with a slight glare but when her eyes look down at my chest her blush once again brightens to the point where her ears start to tint and she quickly walks away nervously.

“A-Ah think we should g-get back to it then,” she stammers. Mac and I chuckle and nod as we continue to make our way through the apple trees and gather apples from each one. For the rest of the day, we continue our routine of AJ bucking the trees, Mac and I catch them in the baskets as they fall, bring the filled baskets back to the barn and get back to gathering apples.

I even volunteered to try knocking the apples down and when I kicked a tree the apples fell almost instantly, along with a few other trees next to it that had the same results since my kick seemed to send some kind of shockwave through the ground surprising the three of us. As we were gathering apples, which by the way they had me be the one to kick the apples instead of AJ, I caught AJ glancing at me from time to time and when I looked over to her she quickly looked away with a slight blush and pretended to play with her ponytail which made me chuckle. All in all, I’d say I’m gonna enjoy working here and I’m glad the Apples hired me.

Five hours later

I was riding on Flying Nimbus through the skies with a content attitude and a hefty sack of bits in my jacket pocket. It’s a good thing I asked AJ and Mac how currency works around here otherwise I’d be spending more than I’d like.

“Hey Nimbus, fly me over to the lakes shore. I wanna get started on my training a little bit before I head back,” I tell Nimbus. The cloud turns to the right and I’m now headed towards the lake and I pull my Power Pole from my back and place it on my lap. Five minutes later we make it to the edge of the lake and I hop off Nimbus as it flys away. I look around and see there’s no one else here so it’s just me by my lonesome. I placed my jacket on the ground under a tree and stretched my body a bit. Since my day of work at the farm, my body was already warmed up so I didn’t really have to prepare much for my training. As much as I wanted to start practicing my fighting techniques and Ki blasts, I always told myself that it’s sometimes better to be over prepared than underprepared. I sat down on the grass with my Staff laying in front of me and I placed both my hands on my knees while closing my eyes and began to meditate.

I cleared my thoughts of all distractions and cancelled out my surroundings so I could feel my Ki flow throughout my body. It was slow at first but I could feel my Ki start to envelop me which was very calming. I then started to picture myself back in the World Martial Arts Arena where I took my stance and began to mimic the same karate techniques as I did in my dream. I also envisioned myself surrounded by masked enemies who tried to take me down but I managed to dispatch them with my Wolf Fang Fist and a few other Strike techniques at my disposal. I even envisioned firing some Ki blasts including my Buster Cannon which finished off the rest of my mental enemies. I opened my eyes and saw I was hovering above the ground a bit since my Ki was charged due to my mental training.

Now charged and warmed up, I lean down and grab my Power Pole. I fly over the water and make my way to the center of the lake and float there. I take a stance holding my Power Poll behind me and charge my Ki more. A familiar white aura envelopes my body and bursts out making it flicker like fire and the water below me ripple. I raise my left hand and open and close it and see the Ki surrounding my arm move with me. I smirk and look up with new found confidence as I prepare for my training.

“Now the real training begins,” I said.

About 2 hours later back in Ponyville 3rd POV

The ponies of Ponyville were happily enjoying their afternoon with smiles on their faces and greeting each other with no worries whatsoever. The skies were also clear on this relaxing day thanks to a certain rainbow maned pegasus who was on duty for the day. Rainbow Dash was now laying on a cloud with her hands behind her head and her legs crossed just relaxing thinking about a certain group of ace flyers she always dreamed about meeting one day since she was a filly.

Her thoughts then trailed to a certain human friend of hers making her smirk more than she was. She thought about how cool he was and how he could fly without wings which was a major plus for her. She then started to remember seeing his bare chest back at the hospital which made her cheeks tint a bit.

That guy sure knows how to take care of himself, she thought, I wonder what those muscles of his feel like….

Just when she was about to let her thoughts become more “explicit”, shall we say, she was snapped out her trance when she heard a loud boom coming from the lake. Rainbow immediately shot up from her cloud and looked towards the lake and saw the water was crashing around wildly creating many small waves. Curiously but still on guard, she flew over to the lake and speed texted her friends to meet her at the lake as soon as they could. Once she made it to the lake, she hid behind a tree just on the shoreline peeked over to see who or what was causing all this.

To her surprise, she saw her human friend William flying in mid air above the water and his whole body was covered in some kind of white light that flickered like fire. In his left hand was some kind of strange stick and his right hand was held up with two fingers pointed towards his face. A bright ball of crackling energy appeared on the tips of his fingers and was starting to grow larger and brighter with each passing moment. The white fire like light around William also started to flicker more frantically like it was alive and reacting to the ball of light on William’s fingers. Before Rainbow Dash could question what he was doing, William shot his arm out to the open water and took in a deep breath.

“SPECIAL BEAM CANNON!!!” he screamed.

All of a sudden, a large beam with a coiling trail fired from William and shot to the far side of the lake. A large explosion of energy and water bursted from the lake causing more waves to thrash around the surface and crash on the shoreline. Rainbow Dash was awestruck at what she had just witnessed, whatever William did was arguably the most coolest thing she’d ever seen. All she could do was stare at William in admiration and excitement.

“Yup, that guy really is something else…” She sighs as she starts to blush.

Author's Note

Next chapter is a funny one, hope you enjoyed!

~WurkyWilk has left the building…