No eyes, Always Watching

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Chapter 3

You Do What To Your Apples?!

Tyler couldn’t see a thing as Pinkie Pie had blindfolded him and was no guiding him to who knows where.  He kept his hand on her poofy, cotton candy style mane so he wouldn’t bump into something or get lost.

“Pinkie Pie did you seriously have to blindfold me? What’s so special that you gotta go to these lengths to keep me in the dark?” Tyler questioned as he slowly walked with the energetic pony.

“Ah ah ah~ We wouldn’t wanna ruin the surprise! Because if you already knew about it then it wouldn’t be a surprise!” Pinkie simply replied before stopping in her tracks.

“Why did we stop? Can I take the blindfold off now?” he said reaching up to pull the blindfold off, only to feel a hoof slap his hand.

“Not yet~!” Pinkie replied with a giggle before pushing him from behind into a doorway, causing him to stumble forwards trying to regain his balance.

As he regained his balance he pulled the blindfold off his eyes only to find himself standing in a completely dark room.  “Uhm….hello?” the very second he spoke up the lights flashed on and a huge cheer rang through his ears as a huge group of ponies yelled “SURPRISE!” causing him to jump up a little.

Tyler couldn’t help but smile as he looked around the room seeing tons of ponies grinning ear to ear, standing under a banner that said “Welcome to Ponyville”.

“Pinkie did you plan this all yourself?” Tyler asked as he turned to the pink mare who was bouncing around.

“I sure did silly! Wouldn’t be much of a welcome if we didn’t throw you a party!” she said before shooting off one of her confetti cannons.

“Well you ponies sure know how to make a guy feel welcome.” He said walking over to the snack table grabbing a cupcake, taking a quick bite out of it as everpony in the room started chatting amongst themselves.

Slowly the tall dark suited man crept through the woods, eventually finding himself in a clearing that the sun shone through. He stood motionless for a moment his blank face staring at a rustling bush, daring not to make a move.  His tendrils quickly outstretched into the bush constricting it’s prey tightly as he slowly brought it to his face, what he held before him was a small rabbit, struggling to break free from the dark tendrils of it’s blank-faced captor.  An entire minute passed as he held the rabbit slowly squeezing the life out of it until it slumped over, lifeless and unmoving.  He could only stare at the rabbit before he dropped it on the ground, continuing his trek through the woods, leaving the lifeless corpse lay in the clearing where he once stood.

Tyler was having a blast at the party as Vinyl Scratch had begun to spin her impressive beats, bobbing her head to the rhythm in her trademark purple shades.  Tyler, along with some other ponies were all dancing to the rhythm, all laughing and bouncing around.

Over by the snack table Twilight smiled as she watched Tyler enjoy himself so much in such an unfamiliar place.  “He sure can make the best of things can’t he?” she said turning to Applejack who was biting into a cupcake.

“He sure can, Ah never seen anypony dance like that before.  Then again ah never seen anypony who could walk on two legs comfortably neither.” She chuckled before setting her cupcake down.  “There’s just one problem Twi…Where’s he gonna live? It’s not like he’s got any bits to buy himself a house.” The farmer pony said to her friend in a serious tone.

“Well…I suppose he could stay with me and Spike? Maybe he could help around the library too?” she said as she scratched her head.

“Ahm not so sure about that Twi, remember what happened with owloyscious?” apple jack replied with a crooked eyebrow.

“Oh right….Wouldn’t want Spike to get all jealous again and try to get rid of Tyler…Maybe he can stay with you? He could help out on the farm so he could earn his own bits.” Twilight replied with a twinkle in her eye.

“Well That sounds just great Twilight! We could always use an extra hoof—er Ah mean hand in his case, round the farm.  Let’s just hope he’s a hard worker.” She said before calling to her new human companion “Tyler come over here a minute, Ah got something Ah wanna ask ya!”

Tyler stopped his dancing before walking over to the orange farm pony “Hey AppleJack, what’s up?”

“Twilight and Ah have been thinking ya’ll still need a place to stay while you’re in ponyville, and it just so happens Ah have room over on the Apple Family Farm, if ya would like to come and stay with me an mah family that is.” she explained as she took another bite of her cupcake.

“Sure that sounds great!” he said with a big grin on his face.

“There’s a catch though sugarcube.” She said causing Tyler to slightly frown.

“What kind of catch?” he asked her scratching his head.

“Ya’ll are gonna have to work on the farm to earn you’re keep, ah’ll toss some bits your way so you have some spending money as well.”

Tyler didn’t really enjoy the idea of working on a farm, but he did need a place to stay as well as some form of money.  “Well I don’t really see a problem with that I guess..” he replied causing AppleJack to smile brightly at him.

“Great! We can walk home to the farm after the party, and ah’ll be waking ya up bright and early tomorrow, so ya’ll better get your sleep.” She said before trotting off to talk to Rainbow Dash.

“Something tells me that pony is gonna run me ragged tomorrow…” he said turning to Twilight.

“Oh you don’t know the half of it mister.” Twilight replied as she rolled her eyes.

The party started to draw to a close as ponies started leaving and the sun began to set, several ponies smiled and waved goodbye to Tyler as they left, he would smile and wave back, rather enjoying all the attention all the ponies were giving him.

“Well ain’t you just Mr. Popular?” AppleJack said as she nudged him in the side.

He chuckled and blushed a bit “Yeah…they’re probably just interested in seeing somebody new, especially when they aren’t really something they see any other day.”

“Well we better head out if we wanna get back to the farm by dark, follow me partner.” AppleJack trotted out the door with Tyler following closely behind as they headed in the direction of Sweet Apple Acres.

“Cmon Bon Bon if we don’t get there we might miss him!” Lyra shouted as she galloped in the direction of SugarCube Corner.

“Lyra calm down! Why do we need to hurry? I’m sure you’ll get to see him sooner or later.” Bon Bon replied with an exasperated sigh.

“BUT I NEED TO SEE HIM NOW!” Lyra shouted breathing heavily with wide eyes, causing Bon Bon to take a few steps back.

“Lyra….did you take your medication this morning?” she asked as Lyra trotted through the door in SugarCube Corner, paying no mind to what her friend had said at all.

Lyra looked around until she spotted Pinkie Pie cleaning up everything from the party, humming to herself. She ran to her with a hopeful grin “Pinkie Pie! Where is he?!”

“Oooo~! Where is who? Are you playing hide and seek with someone? Can I play can I play can I play?!” she asked bouncing up and down excitedly.

“NO! Where is the human?!” Lyra asked grabbing the bouncing pony to keep her attention.

“Oh well he just left with AppleJack, you Just missed him.” She said with a giggle.

Lyra sighed dejectedly and slumped over on the floor “Cruel fate has bested me again…” she said as she moped on the floor.

Bon Bon trotted in to see a depressed Lyra on the floor.  She looked at Pinkie Pie “Lemme guess…she just missed him?” Bon Bon asked the grinning pink mare

“Uh huh.” She replied, continuing to clean up after the party.

“Cmon Lyra, there’s always tomorrow….” She said grabbing her friends tail in her mouth, once again dragging her home.

Tyler and Applejack kept walking along the trail to Sweet Apple Acres. Tyler was telling her a story from his childhood.

“….and the damn thing was so heavy the line snapped right as we were about the pull it out of the water.  Saying I was a little upset woulda been an understatement….had to buy a new fishing pole hehheh….” he said chuckling sheepishly.

“Wow you sure have some crazy stories there.  Well here we are~” she said as they walked up to the entrance of her apple farm

“Holy crap that’s a lot of apple trees!” he said as he stared at the trees that seemed to go for miles.

“You’re tellin’ me, good thing Ahm a genuine applebucker.” She replied with a rather proud tone.

“Wow that must…..wait……you do WHAT to your apples?!” he asked staring at her with wide eyes.

“Ah buck em’…..what did you think Ah said?” she looked at him confused

“OH! I thought you said something else.” at that moment Tyler got an idea and tried to hide his sly smile. “Ahem…..sooo…..how often do you buck apples?”

“Ah buck em’ everyday of the week.” She said puffing her chest out proudly.

Tyler stifled a chuckle before continuing with his little joke “And how hard do you “buck” them?”

“Ah buck them as hard as Ah can.” She continued giving him a confused look

“And….pfff…h-how long do you “buck” them?” he kept chuckling under his breath.

“Ah buck em from morning till night.” She replied.  At the point Tyler busted out laughing, slapping his knee before falling onto his back and holding his sides.

“BAHAHAHAHAAAA! Oh I bet you do! Buck em’ all day, Buck em’ REAL good!” he continued to howl with laughter leaving AppleJack staring at him a little confused.

“What’s so gosh darn funny?!  Something funny about applebuckin mister?” she said glaring down at the human rolling on the ground with laughter.

Tyler kept laughing before pausing just long enough to explain “A-AppleJack….just…replace that B with another letter….”

AppleJack stood there for a moment before her cheeks flushed brightly and she covers her mouth with her hoof, causing Tyler to bust out laughing again.  AppleJack glared but eventually joined him in his laughter.

“Well ah sure haven’t heard that one before, cmon let’s go inside so ya’ll can get some sleep for tomorrow.” She said trotting towards her house, Tyler following her after brushing his clothes off.

Here it is guys, Chapter 3! As promised to all my readers~ To be honest I wouldn’t be writing this at all without you guys supporting me~