//------------------------------// // We do it tha Earth pony way! // Story: Cowponies // by East Coast //------------------------------// Sweet apple acres. The most popular place place to go for some piece and Quiet. If you didn't mind Having to Avoid The apple work, and you have a good reason to be sleeping there Apple Jack would grant you your piece. It is here that Apple jack happened to be Sleeping,her hat tipped over her eyes, in the shade of a tree recently bucked. It had been some time sense she had a day to herself and with big mac and granny smith at the market, and apple bloom off with the crusaders she couldn't help feel some what melancholy. The day prior had been hearts and hooves day and she didn't have a very special somepony. She Never had a special somepony....Not that Nopony had offered or asked, quite the opposite, she found herself hiding in her barn from suitors but they all lacked something,nothing she could put her hoof on but it was pretty significant if she skipped a holiday to avoid them all. The only hearts and hooves day she can remember where she had a truly good time was so long ago. Sweet Apple Acres, night;Several HeartsnHooves days ago "Ey apple jack?" "Yeah six?" "Yah Ever wonder how we get our cutie-marks?" "Yah have to discover yer special talent! everpony knows that!" "Yeah, I know That...But I mean how? I mean, earth ponies like ya'll don have magic right? How do yah get cutie-marks with no magic? An who gives em to us?" "Heh, you're thinkin to much...I think We get them ourselves ya know? Aint nopony more reasponsible than me for me gettin my cutie-mark!" "But That rainbow? Rainbows don just Fly Through the sky like birds Apps. Somethin missin...." "C'mon Six, no need to look into it like thaat~! Cmon aint this just a pretty night? Seein all these stars?" "Yeah...Yeah I guess their allright... How many ponys you think are looking up right now..." "Hmmm...Maybe lots, maybe none...Ive seen this enough to know it aint worth missin." "The Stars?" "Aeyup. Nothing like star gazing with a friend on hearts 'n hooves day ya know?" "So...Why drag me out here? Aint like Yah need me..." "No I don't, chur right. But it's still pretty." "Are there any Star apples?" "Star apples?! What kind o' question is that?! Noooo there aint no star apples!" The young mare laughed to herself in spite of herself "No star apples, but sometimes There are these special apples that grow round here. Zap apples they call 'em. Granny smith knows tha secret signs and we start preparin the second she starts gettin the pans...I think We're do For some perty soon, good thing yer here, else we would have to buck 'em all ourselves." "I don undahstand Why I gotta buck 'em. I got A horn, I could pick 'em with magic! Then maybe they wouldn't taste like ground-" -WHAM- A Buck to the teeth sent Six flying. He landed on his back about a foot away. "Don't chu ever say poor bout My apples!" "-cough-F-Fine! gosh! Just sayin! Might keep 'em off the ground, away from worms n what not!" "Sweet apple acres has always,and will always pick apples the earth pony way! I told yah that already!" "Yeah, yeah. 'leave yer fancy magic at that gate stallion, We don use magic On the apple farm!' I remember." "Darn Straight! Now Let's get back home, get teh bed. Big Mornin tamarrow!" "Big? it aint nevah Small...C'mon I'll walk ya back." Six Stepped a hoof or two ahead "In yer Dreams! C'mon hows bout I race ya Instead?" "Winner Dont buck till afternoon?" Apple Jack spat into her hoof and six did the same. They grasped each others hooves and shook firmly "Deal! Go!" "Deal! Go!"