//------------------------------// // Ponyville- The last two // Story: A Changeling Alternative // by UsedTeaBag //------------------------------// Eventually ALternate gave up- his eyes started hurting- and he just decided he didn´t care about the bunny anymore and went his way to find Pinkie Pie. Angel Bunny was still on his back and Alternate couldn´t get him off- even using his magic failed, because the bunny had a tight grip on his mane and it hurt trying to levitate him away- so he eventually gave up on this one too. To top it off, Angel started hitting him, though Alternate noticed he was doing that rather halfheartedly. What did the bunny want from him? Suddenly he heard the all too familar yell of Pinkie Pie as she hugged him out of nowhere, knocking the air out of him in the proccess. He faintly heard Pinkie rambling on about how she found the two remaining Ponies he´d have to meet and so on. Alternate shook his head to regain focus on the world around him and found that Pinkie Pie had somehow managed to get him all the way from the middle of Ponyville to a . . . farm? He looked around and saw a red barn which was relatively big. There were also a hundred or more trees surrounding the area that caught Alternates attention. Standing in front of the barn were two ponies intently staaring at each other which caused confusion on both Alternates and Angels faces. "Here we are! Alternate, this is Sweet Apple Acres! And there are Applejack and Rainbow Dash! C´mon! Let´s say hello!", Pinkie cheerfully hopped towards the two Ponies. One was a blue Pegasus with rainbow colored mane and a cutiemark of a rainbow in a lightning- Alternate guessed this was Rainbow Dash- and the other was an orange Earth Pony with blonde mane, three red apples as cutiemark and a cowboy hat on top of her head. They seemed to be in the middle of a staaring contest and Alternate awkwardly coughed getting both of the ponies attention. "Oh? Who are you?", the Pegasus asked. But before Alternate could introduce himself the pony he thought must be Applejack seemed to realize something: "OH! You must be Alternate view! Pinkie Pie told us about you. Right, Rainbow?" The Pegasus nodded. "Oh, right! I remember now! Well, it´s nice to meet you! I´m Rainbow Dash! My goal is to be a Wonderbolt one day!", she exclaimed her wings extending excitedly. "And I´m Applejack! I´m a farmer pony and work on Sweet Apple Acres. I basically live here. It´s nice to meet ya, Alternate.", the Earthpony smiled softly, "You up for some apples?" "Uh, no actually. I´m, uh, allergic to them", Alternate lied leaving both Applejack and Rainbow Dash shocked- Pinkie Pie was nowhere to be seen. "You´re allergic to apples?! How is THAT even PPOSSIBLE?!", Rainbow Dash yelled shocked as ever. She couldn´t believe something like that even existed in all of Equestria. Alternate took an awkward step back, not knowing how to reply. Had he just dug his own grave? Did he entangle himself in his own lie? Or was his lie just so unbelieveable for Pony standards? Yes, that must be it. He must haave told a lie that they couldn´t believe. But how could he get out of this sticky situation? The silence that followed Rainbows shocked yell was soon interrupted by Angel Bunny hitting Alternates neck halfheartedly. Alternate gave him a questioning look and Angel just shook his head with a face that said Are you kidding me? Rainbow and Applejack looked at the Bunny confused. They must know the little bunny or something. Maybe they knew Fluttershy. It would make sense, in this town everypony seemed to know almost everypony. "How come you have Angel Bunny on your back? Shouldn´t he be with Fluttershy or something?", Rainbow asked pointing towards the bunnny on Alternates back with a questioning look. " I don´t know why he´s on there. I was on my way back to the Library from Fluttershy´s cottage and suddenly I felt a weight on my back and found it was him. I couldn´t get him off- he had a tight grip on my mane- and now we´re here.", he explained and Applejack rubbed her chin thinking about why the Bunny would possibly want to stay with Alternate even though he clearly didn´t look like he was enjoying it. "Maybe Fluttershy told him to stay with you? Maybe you looked lonely to her and she wanted Angel to be your friend?", Applejack guessed and Angel just scoffed at that making Alternate shaking his head no. "It would be a possibility, but I think Angel wouldn´t play along with that.", Alternate stated and Applejack and Rainbow Dash nodded, knowing what he was talking about. "Huh . . . well, I doubt we´ll get an answer outta Angel, that is for sure!", Applejack simply stated shrugging her shoulders. "Huh, I guess we won´t. But whatever, right? It´s not like he´s doing anything awful to you mane, right? Or is he?" "No he isn´t, but I´m still confused as ever as to why he would stay with me. He doesn´t seem to like me all that much. But whatever. What were you two doing just before Pinkie and I arrived?", he asked. "Well, we just had a friendly staaring contest. Nothing big. Just a friendly contest between two friends.", Applejack replied and Alternate raised a brow at the tone she had used, but dismissed it. Angel hit Alternate to get his attention and, upon recieving it, pointed at the sky making Alternate look up. He soon realized what Angel was on about as he found the sun going down very, very fast. He sighed. he could almost hear the bunny saying "I´m tired! Carry me home, slave!" Ok, maybe the "slave"-part was a bit much, but it wouldn´t surprise him with the attitude Angel had towards him all this time. "Well, I suppose I should take my leave then. It is getting a little late and I have to get this guy here back to his home. So, it was nice meeting you two. See ya!", he smiled at them waving before he finally left the apple farms grounds. He wanted to take the turn to Fluttershy´s cottage, but before he could even try to do that Angel pulled at his mane making him change direction. He stopped in his tracks and looked at Angel angrily. "What do you think you´re doing?", he asked the bunny who just shrugged with his shoulders making Alternate groan in frustration and roll his eyes "You´re not going to get off of me anytime soon, now, are you?" Angel shook his head no, "Well then, let´s go home then- my home- and get this over with. I don´t know about you but I´m sleepy as ever!" Alternate yawned proving his point and Angel gave an approving nod followed by a yawn of his own. Upon arriving at the library Alternate was met with a stack of books landing on his head. He fell on the ground and rubed his head where the books had fallen onto. "What the? What just happened?", he tried lifting a few books from his head with his magic, but soon found it didn´t work. He slowly started panicking as he tried time and time again to use his magic. Failing each time. He felt the weight of the books leave his head and upon opening his eyes saw Angel removing the books from him and giving him an Are you ok? That looked like it hurt kind of look. He stood up and rubbed his horn, confused as to why his magic didn´t work. His horn hurt, maybe a book fell onto it or something like that. He felt Angel climbing onto his back again as Alternate started putting the books out of the way and saw that Twilight was teleporting back and forth through the whole library, looking like she was panicking. Alternate and Angel blinked in confusion. "Princess? Are you alright?", he asked forgetting that he didn´t need to be formal any more, but he was anyway. "Huh? Oh, Alternate! Just the right timing. I need help!", she nearly yelled, panic almost taking over. "Now, calm down, Princess. What is it you need help with?", he asked patiently. " It´s the new book Princess Celestia had given me! 'Spells of heart and Mind' ! I lost it! I cannot seem to find it anywhere!", she hid her head under a pillow at the last sentence in frustration. Alternate frowned slightly. He looked back at Angel worried, but he just shrugged his shoulders and pointed towards the entrance. Twilight looked at Alternate slowly walking towards where Angel had pointed. He lifted a few books by hoof and noticed a crack in the ground. "I don´t suppose there should be a crack in here, now should it?", he asked and Twilight shook her head, a confused expression on her face. She teleported to his side and looked at the crack. Upon further inspection she noticed the crack being a handle to open something. With her magic she opened it and with widdened eyes found the book she was so frantically searching for with a note attached to it. Alternate took it in his hoof and read it out loud "Haha, a little prank! I wish I could´ve seen your face! Hahaha! -T" Twilight looked like she was about to burst into flames of pure anger and glared daggers at the note. Alternate decided not to question it for his own sake and slowly started walking backwards to his room.