Family Reunion

"Her brother? Then' why didn't she seem happy to see you?" Applejack asked.

"No clue. Celestia has always been like that." Terry sighed. "But at least Luna here likes me!" He exclaimed as he pulled the indigo Alicorn into a bone crushing hug. The five mares, while moved by the display  and amused at Luna's face when she was crushed, couldn't help but wonder why Celestia disliked this stallion. He seemed friendly enough. Maybe she didn't approve of his work?

" Well Prince Terry, what is it you do?" Rarity asked. Terry set Luna down before replying.

" Okay: one, no prince, just Terry, and two, I manage various factors concerning plants, animals, and geological formations."

"What?" All five of the present element bearers asked. Terry thought for a moment.

" I make sure plants grow like they should, animals act like they should, and things like mountains, hills, and gems form like and where they should." The mares understood this a bit more then what he had said before. Each of them noticed something that grabbed their attention.

" Wait, so, you make gems form?" Rarity asked with a gleam in her eyes.

"And apple trees sprout?" Applejack questioned.

"And sugar grow?" Pinkie drooled.

"And you make animals like bunnies so cute and cuddly?" Fluttershy squeaked.

"And cause the mountains that are so awesome to fly around?" Rainbow sputtered. Terry backed away slightly from the curious mares.

" Um, yeah, sort of. I didn't make Animals cute but I make sure they stay that way." The mares each grew a huge and rather frightening grin. Pinkie jumped at Terry, laughing as she bore him to the ground. Rarity began to monologue about gems and Fluttershy gushed about animals, while Rainbow reenacted one of her many, heavily enhanced flight stories.

Luckily for Terry he was saved from the insanity of four blabbering mares. His savior was the orange farmer know as Applejack.

"Hey now, this ain't any way to behave. Ya'll are badgering this poor stallion with alla yer nonsense." She pulled Terry back on to his hooves.

"Thank you, Miss Applejack." He said nodding politely.

"No need to thank me. Oh and it's just Applejack, I ain't old enough for 'miss' yet." Applejack replied with a chuckle.  " Besides, I think I owe you some thanks."

"Oh, and what for?" Terry asked.

"That earthquake of yours was just strong enough to shake the ripe apples from my orchard. Now I have myself some free time to relax." Applejack said with a grin.

"Apples, you say? I love apples." Terry said with a big goofy grin. Luna buffeted him upside the head with a wing.

"You don't like apples, you like apple cider and you know it." Luna said with a scoff.

" So what? Apple cider is just like... liquid apples.' Terry muttered. Applejack tried not to laugh.

"Well, I think we might have some cider back at the farm if you want some." Terry perked up instantly. Rainbow, however, became irate.

"Hey, you said you didn't have any more cider!" She exclaimed.

"No, I said I didn't have any more cider for YOU." Applejack said as she stuck out her tongue.

"Oh, you rotten little-!" Rainbow shouted as she charged at Applejack. Applejack laughed and fled from her angry friend. The others just chuckled and followed.

While the others were having fun, Twilight was dealing with a sulky princess Celestia.

"Princess? Will you please open up and talk to me?"

"No!"

"Why? What is so bad about your brother?"

" I don't want to talk about it!" Twilight groaned and began to thump her head against the wall.

" Hiding isn't going to fix anything princess." She said. "Sheesh, your acting like a little brat." She muttered under her breath.

"I heard that. And if I stay hidden, maybe he'll go away."

"Fine, be that way. But can you at least come out of the bathroom? Spike really has to go." There was a moment of hopefully silence.

"NO!" Twilight sighed and started down the stairs.

"Come on Spike I'll teleport you to Rarity's."

"What?" Spike asked as he came in from the backyard. Twilight looked at him for a moment.

"Aw. Go wash your claws." She said disgusted.

Outside of Ponyville, at Sweet Apple Acres, Terry sat at the dining room table in the farm house. He dug furiously at a pile of apple pancakes, pausing only to wash it down with a sip from his mug of apple cider.

Across the table sat Applejack's siblings, Big Macintosh and Applebloom. Both of them stared at the large Alicorn with gobsmacked expressions. Granny Smith walked out from the kitchen with another huge plate of pancakes.

"Heh, heh, hungry feller ain't cha?" Granny chuckled.  Terry smiled at her.

"So, uh, what was it ya said ya did... Yer majesty?" Big Mac asked.

"Oh, none of that your Majesty stuff, I'm not royalty. I basically go around making sure plans and animal and the like are behaving. "

"Uh-huh... Can you gimme an example?"

"Sure, a little while back i had to go fix some messed up parasprites. They were eating buildings and the like instead of actual food, like they are supposed to. Not sure how that happened." Applejack and the others made a point of not pointing out they knew what had happened.

"Oh, and then there were those apples that tasted like grapefruit." The Apple family all just shuddered at the thought.

"Well, good thing you fixed that." Big Mac muttered. Terry nodded as he polished off his second plate of pancakes. Suddenly, the front door swung open and Twilight trotted in.

" Girls, Princess, I need your help with Celestia." She said looking rather put out. " She's, well, it would be easier to see for yourselves." The five mares and the princess looked at each other before standing and following Twilight out of the farmhouse.

For several moments Terry and Big Mac sat in silence while Applebloom and Granny Smith went back into the kitchen. Big Mac sniffed and cleared his throat.

"So,uh, Terry right?" Terry nodded. "You want to go get something a little stronger then that cider? I got a little stash of moonshine me and the fellas make every so often." Terry gave Mac a wild grin.

"I thought you'd never ask."