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// Ch 11. Two mares who ran away. 
// Story: The Silent Guardian 
// by Not_available_now 
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Ch 11.
            
        As Applejack walks over to me I worry a bit. I know, or have seen, that a hard kick from her will hurt. So, naturally, I stand my ground and wait for her to buck me to next week.
            
        She doesn’t do that, to my surprise, but she still looks aggravated. “What in tarnation is goin’ on out here? Ah see Rainbow crashing down here and ah hear some yellin’ comin’ from the both of ya. And then ah see her sprintin’ off. What is happening here?” She is semi-yelling at me, calming a bit down at the end.
            
        “Uhm… ” I say, while thinking of a good answer. “After I ‘left’ she went looking for me, she got angry because I supposedly neglected to tell her that I was here. I didn’t tell her because she bucking kicked me out and I told her that too.”
            
        Applejack still isn’t happy. “Ah would like ta hear the other side of this here story, before ah judge anypony.” She says before looking around for Rainbow. “Did ya see where she went to?”
            
        “I think she went back to her cloud home, at least, that is what I think.”
            
        “Thanks. Ah gotta get to Pinkie to get that balloon o’ her. Maybe she’ll listen ta me.” She says while she thinks something over. “Ya’ll” can go back ta work. Just ask Big Mac for anything ya might need” She says before storming of to Ponyville.
            
        I guess that I just keep bucking then, because I never could keep up with Applejack and flying is out of the question. I can barely get to Rainbow’s home and I think that I need to learn basic levitation before I can teleport anywhere.
            
        I work hard, until I see Big Mac coming towards me, hauling a very large cart with an apple on the sight. He doesn’t say anything until he is right beside me.
            
        “Do ya know why AJ just ran off?” He asks, chewing on his wheat.
            
        “Something happened  with Rainbow and she ran after her to fix it.” I say while kicking the tree behind me, letting the apples fall into the baskets placed under it.
            
        “It always is somethin’ with them two mares.” He grunts a bit. “And now a gotta pick up Applebloom.” His expression doesn’t change for a few seconds, I think he is thinking.  He slowly looks me in the eyes. “Can ya pick up Applebloom?” He asks me in a very deep and serious voice.
            
        “Sure, I wouldn’t mind to pick her up.” I ask, trying not to get too excited to get to pick up one of the Cutie Mark Crusaders. I also get to see all of the other fillies and colts. I think that I need a pacemaker for the rate at which I’m going to get heart attacks.
            
        He walks up to me and stands just an couple of inches away from me. “Let me make maself clear. If anythin’ happens ta Applebloom, ah will buck your lungs out.” Big Mac says without any change in his voice. He is dead serious. “Do ah make maself clear?”
            
        I shrink in a bit. “Yes.” I say, trying to sound just as serious as he was. I hope to think that I came close, but nopony reaches the Big Mac level of stone cold seriousness.  And, even though I think that I am an alicorn, Big Mac still towers above me. Damn that pony is big, almost a full size horse.
            
        “Then ah trust ya with ma sister.” He says while giving me a hard pat on the back and I have to tense up so that I don’t fall over and make and ass out of myself.
            
        “So where is the school?” I ask while bucking some more trees and hearing the satisfying thumps of the falling apples.
            
        “Just follow ta path near the barn to the right and just keep followin’ it.” He says while pointing his hoof in the general direction of the barn.
            
        “Thanks, but when do I need to leave.” I ask, looking at the sun, trying to gauge the time by it. I am really bad at learning the time by solar means.
            
        “About…. now.” He says while keeping his head pointed at the sky.
            
        “Can you take care of the rest of the apples?” I ask while shaking my legs a bit to get that stiff feeling out of them.
            
        “Ah sure can. Iffin’ she asks to go crusadin’ or something say that she can do that after she has done all o’ her chores.” He says while I walk towards the exit.
            
        “Will do, see ya.” I yell back.
            
        I see him give a nod and turn to himself, filling his very large cart with all the apples Applejack and I bucked.
            
        I am going to pick up Applebloom from her school. I never thought that I would think that. I would like to meet other ponies too, like Featherweight, Cheerilee and maybe I can find out if Dinky if Dizty’s daughter or if that are even their real names. It would be awesome to meet them.
            
        While I am walking I think about what I am going to do after I paid off my debt to Rainbow. I need to find a home. Maybe,  if I have enough bits, build a house myself. Or maybe I can be lazy and live in an hotel or something like that. Are the house prices high here in Equestria? I hope they are a bit low, but I think that I will find something.
            
        For the magic part. Maybe I can convince Twilight to teach me when she comes back from Canterlot. I wonder what she is doing there, maybe the princess is doing some more magic with her. I would love to know.
            
        For that matter, at what moment in the show am I? I have noticed no major events that I have seen back on Earth and I am in no mood to ask anypony . The response would be weird if I asked when they went to brave the dragon when they haven’t even been there. They would be on my tail to know immediately.
            
        I zone out so hard that I don’t notice that I am approaching a rather large tree. I slowly walk against it and fall to the ground, rather comically I might say. I look around to see where I am and I see a rather large group of foals standing in front of an school, all of them laughing at me.
            
        My cheeks flush a bit red. Damn this is embarrassing. I look around, trying to find Applebloom.
            
        I stand up and wade my way through the large amount of colts and fillies. I see Applebloom standing over by another tree, alongside 4 other fillies. I can guess who the two of them are, but the other two are a mystery.
            
        I walk up behind them and when I get closer I see who the other two fillies are. Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, bullying Applebloom and the others. My blood starts to boil a bit, but I manage to keep my calm.
            
        They haven’t noticed me yet, so I silently walk behind Diamond and Silver. When I am close enough to hear them, I stand right behind them.
            
        Applebloom and the other fall silent at my, for them, large form dooming up behind Diamond and Silver.
            
        “What are you looking at, dumb blank flanks?” Diamond asks in that annoying squeaky voice of hers, I think that I can guess who her mother is.
            
        I smile inwardly and do what I probably shouldn’t do. Namely, yell ‘BOO’ really, really loud right behind them. And surprising to even me, I use the Royal Canterlot voice.