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// Stallions at work 
// Story: Sunny Knight: a Pony's Tale 
// by TheothersideofSunny968 
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"We're mighty glad you could come down and help us out, youn'yin." Granny Smith said as she and Apple Bloom delivered ice cold lemonade to both Sunny and Big Mac.

"Yeah, we didn't think ya' would get here so fast too!" Apple Bloom added, handing her big brother his third glass of lemonade as he wiped some more sweat from his brow.

"I'm glad to help out" Sunny replied taking another sip of the lemonade. "You all have been so nice to me, it's the least I could do. But when do you think Applejack will be back? I need to talk to her."

"Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Twilight went off to check something out in the Everfree forest." Apple Bloom told the yellow stallion. "They didn't say what, but ah bet cha it has ta do with that comet that fell from the sky the other night."

"Commit?" Sunny repeated the word, taking a small sip of his lemonade.

"Hate to say this, boys" Granny butted in. "But we're burin daylight. We need to get most of this field cleared if we hope to start baking tomorrow."

Forgetting about Applejack and the comet for the moment, Sunny smiled and shot Big Mac a look, that he knew the red stallion could read. 'Bet I could get more work done then you!'

To which the big, muscular farm pony only smiled back with a look that replied 'bring it on!'

And like that, the two stallions went to work, bucking as many apple trees as fast as they could. Apples rained down fom the sky faster and faster. Poor Apple Bloom tried her best to keep up with the high speed work stallions, picking up the stray apples and getting rid of the bad ones, but her work piled up fast as the two competing work ponys pushed themselves harder and harder.

When Granny Smith made it back to the farm house to catch a quick nap in her favorite rocking chair, she was greeted by not only the honorable apple family member, Pinkie Pie, but now Fluttershy as well.

"Well howdy miss Fluttershy!" The elderly mare called out, smiling at the young, yellow mare . "What brings ya by these parts?"

"Oh, well, you see" she began in her timid tone, half hidden behind her pink mane. " I was on my way back from picking up some food for Angle Bunny, when Pinkie Pie told me she had a new friend she wanted me to meet..."

"Yeah! I promised I'd help Sunny make lots and lots of friends!" Pinkie Pie burst out. "And look! He already made friends with Big Mac! Look how much fun they are having!" the pink pony exclaimed as she watched Big Mac and Sunny move from tree to tree, sweat dripping from their forheads as they picked up their pace.

"Um.... Pinkie. They dont really look like they're getting along too well...." Fluttershy commented.

"Nah!" Granny reassured the gently pegusus pony as she took a seat next to her and served her a glass of lemonade. "Them's how stallions make friends. Best friends even. Gotta' get all that steam out of their systems."

"Wow... Really?" Fluttershy looked confused as she looked out at the two stallions as they bucked the trees faster and faster.

"Eh'yep" Granny quoted her grandson and snickered. "Stallions. Ah've raised more then mah' fair share of ehm. And ah know how they work." The three mares just laughed at granny's comment.

"Yeah" Pinkie agreed. "Stallions are wierd like that."

"I'm still amazed that an earth pony smaller then Big Mac can move that fast or work that hard" Fluttershy stated as she looked to the yellow stallion doning a stetson hat with an apple buckle. 

"Yeah! Sunny's amazing! Maybe he grew up on a farm but didn't eat his vegetables, or drink his milk and that's why he's smaller then Big Mac! But he ate a lot of sweets and ran around bucking a lot of trees or breaking a lot of rocks and that's why he's so fast and strong " Pinkie began to real off her differen theories.

"But doesn't that just come with being an earth pony, you know, being strong and stuff?" Fluttershy asked, not wanting to sound rude comment about earth ponies.

"Well whatever the reason, ahm' real glad Golden Delicious sent him to us" Granny said, her eyelids becoming heavy as she quickly fell asleep.