Oak was fighting a red metal monster with big claws and eyebrows part of its pointy head, and steel eyes. All of his friends were down, and it was up to him.
He ran up to it and punched it, but it became an apple, and apples fell on him, because he was being woken up and the dream was collapsing.
"Good morning, Oak!" Applejack said happily.
"Good morning, Applejack!" Oak said happily. "Look at this!"
He grabbed some hay from his bed with magic, eyes glowing purple, and turned the hay into two purple bands, and then he put them on his mane, making his purple mane and tail look exactly like Applejack's while tying it. "Do you like it?" Oak asked.
Applejack was surprised. His mane looking like hers was a little creepy, but also sweet and endearing, like a little brother trying to be like their bigger brother. "Yeah. But How are you using magic without a horn?" Applejack asked.
"Oh, I saw Twilight do it. So now I can do it, too." Oak said.
"But... You need a horn to do magic." Applejack said, confused.
"I don't." Oak shrugged. "Maybe it's a Shadow Dragon thing."
"Huh. Well, let's get you on the farm. We're apple bucking today." Applejack said.
"What's that?" Oak asked.
MEANWHILE IN TWILIGHT'S CASTLE
"Twilight?" Spike asked. "You were really worried about that letter with the red mark, right?"
"Yes." Twilight said.
"What was it?"
"I... didn't check." Twilight said, her eyes shrinking.
"Oh. That's stu-"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" She screamed in panic, grabbed herself and looked psychotic, and then she ran outisde to find Oak.
BACK ON SWEET APPLE ACRES
Oak kicked a tree, and all of the apples fell down.
"Woah, you're good at that!" Applejack said, kicking a tree. Most of the apples fell down.
"Am I better at this than you?" Oak asked.
"Nah. It's not just about the apples, it's about the speed, too." Applejack said. "You've still got a lot to learn if you want to beat me!"
"Ok." Oak said.
And then he noticed something.
"Hey, Applejack... I have to pee." Oak said.
"So? Just do it." Applejack said.
"What? No! You're standing right there, and you're watching! I can't do it with you around!" Oak said, blushing a lot.
"Why the hay not?" Applejack asked, confused.
"I don't know, it just feels really wrong. Maybe the rules about peeing are different where I'm from." Oak said.
"Peeing rules?" Applejack asked, and laughed. "That sounds dumb. Around these parts, there ain't no rules. It's rude to pee in somepony else's house and on trains and cart rides, but apart from that, we could do it in the streets if we wanted. There are rules in places like Dodge Junction and Canterlot, but not here in Ponyville."
"Ew!" Oak yelled.
"All the earth pony magic in this town makes it seep into the ground fast, so nopony's going to step in it or anything. So what's the big deal?" Applejack asked.
"Why did you tell me to use the hay in the barn, if we can just pee anywhere?" Oak asked, confused.
"Big Mac doesn't like ponies sneaking around on the farms at night, we've been having trouble with thieves lately. He might think you're one of them, and kick first, and ask questions later.
"Oh." Oak said sadly. "Sorry, but I need to go, now."
Applejack laughed. "Ain't nothing to it! You can pee here. Heck, I'm doing that now!"
"What?" He asked, and saw that she was wetting herself, smiling and not caring at all. "Ewww!"
He looked away, surprised and confused, and the pony pheremones made him feel dizzy and sleepy. "No, this is wrong, I... I have to pee even more now, but I can't do it in front of you!"
"Alright, finish your work here, and then you can go." Applejack sighed. "You're like Rarity, she freaks out about ponies seeing her pee too."
"Ok!" Oak said, and then he rushed off, as quickly as Rainbow Dash, kicking the trees and making all the apples fall down from every tree nearby each time.
"Woah, nellie!" Applejack said, surprised.
"I need to go now!" He yelled, and ran off.
Applejack looked at all the apples, and started to put them in buckets. "Dang fast dang pony." She said.
Twilight got there. "Applejack, where's Oak?" She asked, scared.
"I don't know, he ran off, saying he needed to pee somewhere private."
"He's lying, and he's really summoning the Shadow Dragons!" Twilight said, scared.
"Now hold up. That don't make no dang sense." Applejack said. "He looked like he was in real dang pain."
"He's faking it! He really IS an evil monster!" Twilight said.
Applejack got angry. "Don't talk like that about Oak."
"I'm sorry, Applejack. But this pony might not even realize he's doing it."
"Then we have to find him." Applejack said. "After I pick up these app-"
Twilight used her magic to pick up all the apples and put them in Applejack's buckets. And then she flew off at Rainbow Dash speed.
"llls." Applejack said sadly. She sadly walked over to Ponyville.
Oak ran into town and went to Pinkie Pie's house.
He saw Mr Cake, and he looked sad.
"Mr Cake! I need to use your bathroom!" Oak said.
"Sorry, we have a rule against that. Only paying customers can use our bathroom." Mr Cake said.
"Then I'll buy something! What can I afford?" Oak asked.
"Nothing, you don't have any money." Mr Cake said. "But Pinkie did buy a drink for you."
He got out a huge glass, and it was filled with pink liquid. "It's a mix of all our milkshakes, she thought you'd like it."
He drank some, and liked it, so he drank it all. "Alright, the bathroom's upstairs. Last door on the left." Mr Cake said.
"Thank you!" Oak said.
Oak ran upstairs, opening a bunch of doors, but only one was the right door, the last one on the left.
He finally got into the bathroom, but the toilet was completely broken. It was a pile of rubble, with water spraying out. "What happened to the toilet?" Oak asked.
"Sorry, Mrs Cake broke it again. It must be all those cakes she eats." Mr Cake said sadly.
"Oh no! Now where will I pee?" Oak asked, getting worried.
"You wanted to pee in our toilet? Why? Just go in the bushes, if you're worried about it." Mr Cake said.
"Great idea!" Oak said happily, running out of the store.
He ran out of the store, looking around, and he saw ponies all around. He quickly ducked into a bush, and saw the Cutie Mark Crusaders there. He ran away, and went into a different bush.
He looked around, and saw he was alone. He sighed, and a wet noise was heard.
"Hi!" Pinkie Pie said, appearing out of his mane.
He screamed and ran away, and she fell out.
"Gottapeegottapeegottapeegottapeegottapeegottapeeeee!" He said to himself, running through town, purple fire behind him.
"How are you that fast?" Rainbow Dash asked, flying down beside him. He screamed and tripped, and wet himself a little. Rainbow laughed, and once he'd stopped, he got back up, getting out of the puddle.
"Are you ok?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"No! I have to pee real bad!" Oak said sadly.
Rainbow laughed. "What's the big deal? It's just pee."
"I don't want anypony to see! I'm... shy."
Rainbow sighed. "It's alright, Fluttershy has this problem sometimes. Wait here."
She flew off, and he bounced on his hooves while trying to grab his body, even though he had hooves, it just felt right.
After what felt like a long time, Rainbow flew down with a fluffy white cloud. "We're supposed to have a sorta-cloudy day today, but we can spare a cloud. Pee in it, Pegasi do it all the time and nopony notices or cares, along as it's not used for rain. Go ahead, I fluffed it up enough for you to use it without having to be a Pegasus."
"Yay!" Oak said happily, climbing onto the floating cloud and peeing into it loudly. Rainbow blushed and looked away, trying to look cool anyway.
Oak sighed with relief, closing his eyes. He wasn't sure how long he was there for, but way too soon, Rainbow Dash said "STOP!"
He gasped and stopped, and looked down to see that the entire cloud had turned yellow, fat, and it had sunk to the floor. "Ewww!" He said as he shuffled off it, and rolled on the floor to dry himself.
"Woah, how long have you been holding that in?" Rainbow said, surprised.
"Twilight said we Shadow Dragons have been sleeping for thousands of years, so... a really long time."
"Wow. Next time I go cider-drinking, you're coming with me." Rainbow said.
"Thanks, but can I have another cloud? I still need to go." Oak said.
"Sorry, I can't. I'll already get in trouble if somepony notices one cloud missing, I can't lose a second one." She said sadly.
"It's okay." He said, kissing her on the cheek.
"Stop doing that!" She said, cutely angry, wings sticking out. "We're not dating yet!"
"Ok. Sorry, gotta go, bye!" He said, running off.
He went for Twilight's house, knowing she'd have a crystal bathroom. It wouldn't be very comfortable, but right now, he'd go anywhere.
"Hi!" Spike said.
"Hi! I need to use your bathroom!" Oak said, potty dancing like a foal.
"You can do that later. Right now, she needs some tests." Spike said. Oak went into the castle with him, and they went to a big olympic swimming pool. "Twilight needs to know how many laps you can do in ten minutes.
"Water?" Oak gasped.
He moaned in pain as he got in the pool, and started to swim, his whole body hurting. He started to leak a little as he peed, thinking nopony would notice, but a big pink cloud started to form thanks to a chemical in the pool after finishing fifty laps in two minutes.
"This water is connected to the main pipes! If you pee in it too much, it'll contaminate everypony's drinking water!" Spike said, lying. "Serves him right for peeing in my pool" He thought.
Oak didn't know he was lying, and he got nervous. He kept swimming, slower, in pain. On the last minute, he sped up a lot more, and finally got out.
"Now can I go to the bathroom?" Oak asked. "I need to pee."
"I noticed." Spike said flatly.
"Please can I go?" Oak asked.
"Ok, it's upstairs." Spike said.
Oak rushed around the ground floor until he found the stairs up, and then he rushed into each room until he found the toilet... but it was a weird one. It was a white plastic hole in the floor, with a bent hole, like a real toilet, but it had a bowl, too. Was he supposed to stand over it? That was just like going outside, only inside, but still standing up, which was still weird!
Oak yelled "Nope!" a lot as he rushed outside, and looked around. "Well that was quick." Spike said.
"Spike! Where's Oak?" Twilight asked, getting to the castle too late.
"You missed him."
"Oh no!" Twilight yelled, and then ran out.
He rushed to Fluttershy's house, finding a nice stream and pond along the way. He wouldn't normally do this, but he was desperate...
He ran over to the lake, and started to pee in it.
He sighed, tail rising in happiness.
And then he got tackled by Fluttershy halfway through, her landing on his stomach, pinning down his hooves.
"Don't pee in that lake! Fish live there, and so do beavers!" Fluttershy yelled.
And then she noticed something. "You're peeing on me!" She said angrily.
"I'm sorry! I can't stop!" Oak said sadly.
Fluttershy used the stare on him, and his bladder froze up, and seemed to shrink, hurting even more. He moaned in pain, knowing he'd need to pee now or he'd explode. "I'm... sorry..." He whispered. "I can... fix... this..."
He waddled to the lake and used his magic, sucking the pee back into him, including the pee on Fluttershy, and then he ran off.
She stared in surprise, wondering what just happened.
He kept running and ended up in the Everfree Forest, where he found a manticore.
He hid in nearby bushes, and watched it mark its territory on a big oak tree. He whimpered and leaked a little.
It heard him, and turned around and roared, blowing away the bush.
The Manticore pounced on Oak, who rolled to the side and headbutted the manticore, knocking its head back. The manticore jabbed its scorpion tail into Oak's back, but its tip broke off.
He punched it in the gut, but the Manticore barely felt it.
Oak's tail wrapped around the Manticore's tail and tore it off, and it felt that. It screamed, and Oak smiled.
Oak thought about pulling its tail off again, but it had already had its tailed pulled off and it was its only tail. So he headbutted the Manticore hard enough to knock its head into the ground, and then it threw him into a tree, the same tree it had marked earlier.
Oak got angry, ran up to the Manticore, and punched it in the face with both hooves, knocking it through a tree. He jumped after it and punched its face four times, but it got up and threw him at a tree. He jumped off the tree, spun around, and bucked the manticore just like Applejack had trained him, knocking it through ten trees and at a bigger tree, bouncing off and making a cloud of dust.
Finally, it was over.
Unable to hold it any more, he ran up to the bigger tree, and let it all go on it. He sighed and lifted his tail, letting it all out. Steam rose high in the air like smoke, and some got onto the manticore, but he didn't care. He'd won the fight, and now, this just felt right. Maybe it was the Shadow Dragon blood in him... but it felt right.
Twilight was watching the whole time, she'd been hiding in a different bush, and she wondered why he didn't use any of the amazing powers her books said Shadow Dragons had, except for copying her magic, a basic parlour trick any of them could do. She wondered if those books could have been wrong...