The 4th Tribe

Time seemed to slow down as AJ slowly reared up. Her legs started to pull back to get some power so that it will hurt me even more. Please make her miss or something…

WAIT I HAVE A SHEILD! THANK YOU DASH!

AND I ALSO HAVE A FORCE FEILD! THANK YOU WHAT EVER GAVE ME THESE POWERS!

She did buck but since Dash was in the way, it was an epic fail.

"Okay you three..."Dash began, eyes flicking between myself, Storm, and Applejack.

"We need to deal with this pumpkin problem, now."  She went and looked at me with a strange look in her eyes.

“Do you know how to fix this?’ WHAT AM I, A BOTANIST?

“Not really no. Hell I don’t even know how I did this.”

I looked back over to the great pumpkin field’s forever… No pony was talking; we were all just kicking our feet and trying not to kill each other.

“Perhaps I could be of assistance.” Storm said, looking at are faces of worry, concern, and wanting to kill some human for doing something he had no idea how or why.

"How ya goin' 'bout 'n doin' that exactly?" She said looking Storm over as to see if he is strong of something. He wiggled his fingers, which got a very strange look from Lyra. I scooted away from her a little bit. I may have forgiven her, but I still don’t trust her.

"I could probably reduce their size considerably... but I'd need to find the main stem in order for me to do that."

"Ah recken y'all are ma only choice, do what y'all need ta do."

He nodded. "Of course... right now though, we need a plan to bypass those pumpkins and get access to the main stem."  I am not liking the sound of this…

"What exactly did you have in mind, Storm?" He looked at me and gave me a troll face.

“A way in…”

Oh fuck…

We were within hearing distance of the crowd now, and they certainly did not sound pleased with the phenomenon. Mostly confused comments were being repeated over and over, with the occasional rage-filled remark thrown in for good measure. I really don’t want to fight them, but if push comes to shove I will go Star Wars on their flanks… But I was still a little bit scared… 100 on 1 is not the best odds for a fight.

"Are you sure you know what you're doing?" I whispered, uneasily glancing at the hundred-pony mob. He simply nodded his head and began to speak to the townsfolk.

"Everypony!"

Some ponies turned around, but most of them ignored him.

"Hey everypony, listen!"

A few more heads, but still, the majority had not heard him.

"Everypony, shut up!"

Complete silence dominated the farm as everypony's eyes were fixated onto Storm.  He chuckled and began to speak

"I have good news about this situation; I can fix it!" Curious murmuring began in the crowd. Really? I want to hear this…"However I need all of you to give me plenty of space while I deal with the problem." Wait what…

Several ponies began to move without question, before a dark-brown stallion yelled out.

"And why exactly should we listen to you?!" What do you mean by you?

"Because I know what I'm doing sir." He replied, staring at his aggravated face. "I just need to get to the primary stem so I can reverse the growing."

He seemed to mull it over before nodding. "Fine, But you best not mess up human."

Excuse me, what was that last comment.

Y U NO LIKE HUMANS?

Storm started slowly walking towards the pumpkin patch from hell and pulled out his blade and began cutting into it.

Suddenly a strange think appeared in his hand. He put something that reminded me of plastic onto the pumpkin and began to walk away from the Pumpkin field. I got a good look of what was in his hand I nearly crapped my pants…

“FIRE IN THE HOLE”

The C4 exploded. Pounds of pumpkin rinds, guts, and seeds scattered all about, drenching anything in its blast radius. Trees, hay bales, other ponies, and even the Apple homestead were not spared from the detonation.  I put up my shield not wanting to be hit by suicidal pumpkin.

AJ and the other ponies were not so lucky…They got covered in pumpkin guts from head to hoof. Storm you are a dead man…

"Now what in tarnation was th't all 'bout?!"

"I needed to get closer to the stem, so I blew my way closer."

She growled as she swept a fore-hoof at the mob. "And in th' process y'all dun covered all them pony-folk in pumpkin mush."

"And you assume I didn't know that would happen?" He asked rhetorically, looking over the orange-ish crowd.

"Wait what?" Applejack mumbled, looking at Storm with a raised brow. "Ya mean ya planned th't?" Yup Storm you are dead…

He nodded. "I'm cleaning it up, don't worry. Plus I just saved you the trouble of having to gut those particular pumpkins right?"

She stared at him almost unsure, before letting out a small chuckle. "Y'all somethin' else Storm." Her smile turned into an evil grin. "But how exactly are ya goin' ta fix this mess?"

He smiled back and raised his hand.

“MAGIC.”

Snap!

Slowly but surely, all the remnants of the explosion began to rise off their surfaces. The growing amount of aerial pumpkin guts fascinated Applejack while I noticed several wheel-barrels off near their barn; they sprung to life, and made a beeline towards me.

They stopped a few feet away, and with absolute ease, he plumped down everything into said barrels. Once they were filled, he waved his hand and sent them off back towards the barn. "There now, easy as pumpkin pie."

ME GUSTA!

“Why did you try to fix that with C4!” I mean, it worked, but I nearly crapped my only pair of pants. And I like these pants!

"It was more to get closer to the stem than anything."

"And you couldn't just slash your way to it?"

He smiled as he bopped my nose. "Now where's the fun in that?"

I swatted him away from me and went back to staring at the great pumpkins.

“Now what are we supposed to do?”

“Well I suppose I could-” I raised my hand, cutting him off. No more explosives at the moment. Time for me to go Star Wars on these pumpkin’s ass. Sorry, Charlie Brown, there will be no great pumpkins this year.

"I'll just smite it repeatedly until something happens." There is nothing wrong with this plan is there?

“Good luck with that.” He said snickering.

I had nothing better to do so I decided to make this walk epic. I turned around and moonwalked for the rest of the way to the pumpkins. Most of the ponies were looking at me with looks of confusion, what the hell looks and a couple of holy shit that’s cool looks. I also took my ray band sunglass out of my pocket and put them on. I stopped, folded my arms and looked at the crowd.

LIKE A BAWS!

The C4 made a decent dent, about four feet deep and five feet wide. Before I kill all these pumpkins, I think a prayer is in order!

I got on my knees and began to recite a prayer.

"Oh almighty god of Pumpkins, Forgive me for my future sin on your kin." I gave a short, quick bow and stood back up.

I concreted on lighting and sure enough, large arcs of electricity began to come out of them. They were colored a beautiful electric blue. Note to self, try to invent lighting in a jar, and then share it with no one. I turned my hands so that they were facing the pumpkins. I thought about bigger and bigger bolts and in turn they got more and more powerful. I have idea how the hell I am doing this, or I how I am learning to control this power so quickly.

But you know what they say, when I doubt…

Fuck I forgot it…

DAMN IT NOTCH!

I took my rage out on the pumpkins…

The result was the bolts lashing out violently towards the pumpkins, lightning dancing about the nearby air particles as they honed in on their target. It impacted, causing arcs of pure energy to trail around any pumpkins in the immediate vicinity. Smoke began to steadily rise from the intact rinds, giving a faint smell similar to a baked pumpkin pie.

Great, I’m Hungry again… Better go back to the Soup Nazi after this.

Wait…Why is the earth shaking…

Oh god…

FAIL MATT FAIL!

Sure enough, the pumpkins had become dislodged. And since we were dealing with twenty-foot tall pumpkins, there was definitely going to be some damage. Well this is fuckin’ perfect! And also strangely beautiful. The orange pumpkins crashing down several apple trees would make for a great painting. I took out my phone and took a quick picture before putting it back in my pocket. The thought suddenly occurred that they might lose enough trees for them to go out of business.

I am so fucked it’s not even funny…

Suddenly timed slowed down to a snail’s pace.

The behemoth pumpkins rolled back to their original position, vines appearing out of the ground and attaching themselves to their respective pumpkin, restraining them. I looked around and saw a pumpkin rolling towards me in slow motion, only problem I was moving about the same speed it was coming at me…

I moved my arm and it moved very slowly up. You know what; this is probably the only time I will ever get to do this!

MATRIX TIME!

I threw my arms forward and dived to the left matrix style.  I honestly which I had a camera on me because this was epic. I landed and I did a slow motion ninja roll and jumped on my feet. Suddenly time sped back up and I fell to ground.

Suddenly pain arced through my body...

My chest was killing me. It felt like someone has stabbing me with a molten steel knife and was running an electric current in it. Tears started falling from my eyes as the pain grew worse and worse. I was trying to cry out but I couldn’t find my voice. I’ve taken pained before but this blew out anything I have ever had.

Amazingly, and very confusing, the pain stopped as suddenly as it started. I slowly got up from and moved felt my chest. I heard a normal heart beat, nothing felt or sounded wrong.

“What the hell was that?” I said to myself, barely above a whisper. I saw Storm and Lyra coming towards me. I didn’t want them to worry so I gulped and spoke to Storm.

“Storm, what did you-“

I was interrupted by a loud-ish groan emanating from the patch. Slowly, the pumpkins began to shrink down to a more manageable size. Ponies looked on in awe as a simple tap was reducing their size.

I had done all that shit and he could have just waved his hand and fixed it!!!!!

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!

"I was hoping that I didn't have to directly do this, since it takes the challenge out of it."

"Wait what?!" Lyra yelled suddenly. He looked over his  shoulder at her flabbergasted expression.

"You mean ponies could have gotten hurt simply because you wanted a challenge?"

He let out a dry chuckle. "No one could have been hurt. I was hoping that Matt could learn a bit about not thinking things through though." Yup you’re dead.

"If I wasn't here, most likely there would have been irrecoverable damage to the crops and possibly death." He walked over towards AJ and rested his head against the tree. He closed his eyes and got some much needed sleep. Nope, no sleep for you.

“Just…how powerful are you?”

"Enough to make this entire reality disappear in a snap of my fingers," he retorted, looking out towards the apple orchard. My chest started throbbing with pain. It was bad but unlike the last one I could deal with. My vision started to blur, but it disappeared as suddenly as it came. AGAIN!

THIS IS GETTING ANNOYING.

"So..." Lyra began, looking around at the slowly dispersing crowd of ponies. "What should we do now since that's taken care of?"

"I suppose re-meeting the other girls would be best for now." Storm remarked with a smug tone.

"Re-meeting?" Applejack reiterated, staring at him curiously. "What do ya mean by th't?"

"I'll explain on the way. Let's stop by Twi's firs.” He said, well I think he said. I was trying to think of what the hell was wrong with me. It couldn’t be heart attack because I would of felt a pain in my arms or leg, also I have no history of any heart related problems.  If it happens again I’m going to the doctor or whatever they have here because in the words of cave Johnson.” That’s no supposed to happen.” I was so lost in thought I hadn’t noticed that I had begun to follow them. Could it be? Nah can’t be, she said there were no problems with me drinking it…

"Oh no you don't Matt."

"What?" I asked with a look of confusion on my face.

"Since that whole ordeal was your fault, you get to stay behind and harvest the pumpkins yourself.”

But I don’t want them to worry…

He let out a crooked smile. "Well those were your seeds, which make them your pumpkins, which in turn makes them your responsibility."

BULL CRAP! They were HER seeds, SHE asked ME to plant them!

Insert Jackie Chan face here

"And if I refuse and go with you anyways?" I said as I crossed my arms. He went and chuckled a bit and went and leaned into AJ left ear and whispered her something

.

After about 10 seconds, she nodded and walked up towards the barn

“Where is she going?”

"Going to collect something."

You don’t say…

My face paled just slightly at the sight of Big Macintosh, swallowing a nervous gulp. He leaned in slightly close to me.

"A bit of insurance to make sure you do what needs to be done. When you’re finished, seek us out at Twi's Library."

Gah…I don’t think doing manual labor is a good idea right now, but better than getting in a winless argument that I can’t even troll in…

Sigh…

They turned around and started to walk towards back towards Ponyville. Dash gave me a wink and flew with them...

WHAT THE HELL DID THAT MEAN!

“Well let’s get going Mac…” I turned and he basically pushed me towards the barn.

“You know I’m not going to run away right?”

“Eeyup.”

“Then why are you pushing me?” He stopped and seemed to realize what he was doing.”

“Thank you!”

A/N Well i am sorry this took so long to get out. I have had zero free time and when i did i was ethier sick or at the hostptial with my grandma. Anyway please enjoy it and don't fogot to comment and rate.

Also i was challgned by my friend to put more than 5 memes...

Yeah i broke that!