Now, I ain't gonna lie. When I think back on tha' moment... Not mah smartest move. But, it ain't like I had much choice. Now, I'm betting ya'll are thinkin pretty hard how my little charge went; I'lll spoil it for ya, I did end up livin. True shame huh? Turns out, them buffalo was just stampedin. They didn't even give a damn 'bout my pissin in their water... Heh... They uhhh, kinda had fergot bout it till I brought it up... Life got a funny way of makin ya laugh, don' it?
-Ponyville, sweet apple acres, approximately the same time Six tried to out bulrush a bull-
Apple Jack grit her teeth and bucked a tree, the apples all fell into a tidy heap in a wicker basket, rainbow dash was uncharacteristically torpid, sitting on a cloud she had clearly lowered to suit her purposes.
"Hey A.J! I bet you can't eat all those apples!"
"Buck you Dash! I bet chu I can eat all these apple faster than ya'll can get off mah farm! I'm workin!"
"Awwww c'mon jacks! Gimme a break here! I just spent the whole night filling in for some mail mare!"
"Fer a pony who can clear tha sky in ten seconds, ya sure seem ta be slow when ya aint doin yer real job."
"Hey! I could have delivered those papers in a dash! I just needed to find a translator for the head of E.Q.D! I can't understand him."
"Listen, seth is the nicest pony I evah-"
"Noooo not THAT one! The one in Filly! He needs a SERIOUS helping hoof in the voice category."
"So what yer saying is... He needs propah trainin the the way of tha voice?"
"Pretty much..."
"Rainbow... Have I evah told ya tha story of how I used to be a pegusus like you-"
"What?! Noooooo way! You were never a-"
"Then I took an arrow in the wing."
Rainbow dash dead-panned as apple jack went on bucking trees, rainbow, not being an avid user of equestrian internet was not familiar with where this phrase kept coming from, but everypony knew it, and they would often say it to her... Tooo often in fact, so often in fact, it made her rage bubble like an otherwise dormant volcano, erupting suddenly after a hundred years. Apple jack was her friend, she couldn't tear off her mane and put it down her throat.... But she could cover her friend in apples. And with a swift buck to the tree applejack was standing under, that is exactly what she did. Applejack was covered in a pile of apples
The pile gurgled something akin to "I'll kill you dash" but rainbow was far too busy laughing hysterically on her back, suspended in mid air, holding her sides. When AJ's head finally did surface, she was giving Dash the eye, then smiled and tossed an apple at her feathered friend which ended in a satisfying -SQUAPLISH- against rainbow's flank, hiding her cutie mark in crushed apple.
It was AJ's turn to laugh.
And laugh she did, rolling on the ground, ignoring her previously important work to take this time to share a laugh with a treasured friend.
Six was doing something very similar...
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"Ahehehehe! Braeburn! You son-ova-skag! What cha doin out this far from apploosa?!"
"Six? Boy, that you?! Hell! I heard chu wasn't workin' for AJ no more, didn't 'spect to find you out here in thase parts!"
The two ponies shared a brotherly embrace, braeburn's dusty duster sweeping the ground of the buffalo camp. Surprise looked between the two ponies and giggled.
"Awwwww yeah! Reunion party time!"
"Six. Who's the pegasus?"
"Surprise, this is Braeburn. Braeburn, Surprise."
Braeburn almost assaulted the off grey/white pegasus with a powerful, over enthusiastic hoof shake
"Pleasure to meet cha miss! Name's Braeburn!
"Hehe ohhhhhh I know! I love western fics!"
'Haha!"
Braeburn leaned in close towards Six, hushing his voice to a gruph whisper
"What's she talkin' 'bout?"
"Not a damn clue, just ignore it. That's what I do."
Surprise looked at her hoof, still being vigorously shaken by Braeburn, who was talking to Six, private time, buck stuff, like hoof-ball and guns and plots and wet manes... Probably stuff like that. She began humming a tune in her head.
As in the tune she was humming was being played in her head.
She was the only pony who could hear it.
Because it was in her head.
Her eyes derped out, and the two stallions, and a couple of buffalo even ,had gathered to watch her eyes drift apart as if she had some kind of mental illness 
The duo decided it was best to leave her alone, and catch up.
"So, Brae, ya din't answer me b'fore. Whatcha doin out here?"
"Well, see, it's a long story..."
"And that's what happened."
"Luna's moon heat... Wish Ah'd been there."
"Me too. So, how have you been these past few years?"
"An now Ah'm here."
"Well ain't that dandy?"
They had talked well into the night, Surprise hadn't moved, the Buffalo had prepared a meal. Apple pies and a secret buffalo soup. Six lipped his lips as he approached the large pot on the fire, his magic reaching out to pop off the lid.
"What're we waitin for? Time to chow down!"
As six lifted the lid-
