We're here too ya know
“My wings!”
“My horn! Your horn! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!”
Applejack and Pinkie watched in slight annoyance at how Discord got rid of their friends horns and wings. Not only did he hide the elements from them in a hedge maze, but now he took away the one thing that separated them from the two earth ponies, a horn and a pair of wings.
They thought he would take something of theirs away as well that would jeopardize this so called ‘game’ of his, but no, he didn’t; he just flew there, laughing at how Twilight and Rarity can’t do their overzealous magic, and at how Fluttershy and Dash can’t fly around without a care in equestria. He probably didn’t even notice the two earth ponies sitting there, glaring at him and the other elements.
“You seein’ what I’m seein’ Pinkie.” Applejack asked sternly, not taking her eyes off the panicking mares and the hysterical goat.
“Well, let’s see,” Pinkie squinted her glaring eyes at them. “I see four of our friends, each one of them crying over not having things that we never had in the first place” Pinkie asked in the same angry tone as AJ. “Am I right?”
“Eeyup.” Applejack nodded and faced Pinkie. “Can you believe this, cryin’ their eyes out at how they can’t do dem fancy tricks no more.”
“No, I can’t believe it” Pinkie crossed her hooves and pouted. “Do you think he’s coming over here to take something away from us too?”
Applejack gave a fake chuckle. “What’s he gonna take, mah hat?” She adjusted her stetson and smacked her hooves to the ground. “I don’t even think he cares about us.”
“What do you mean?” Pinkie uncrossed her hooves and faced AJ. “He doesn’t care about any-”
“I mean he doesn’t care about what we have, Pinkie! I mean...Look at us!” Applejack looked over herself and narrowed her eyes. “We. Have. Nothing!”
Pinkie grabbed Applejack and shook her. “We do have stuff! We have...uh...we…” She let go of her and tapped her chin. “We….We have strong tails.” She smiled and twirled her puffy pink tail in the air. “He could take those away.”
Applejack glanced at her own tail and lifted it in the air. “How exactly is THIS” She took hold of her tail and held it inches from Pinkie’s face. “qualified as a special trait we have?”
Pinkie shrugged “It's durable?”
Applejack raised an eye at her. “Durable?”
Pinkie scratched the back of her neck. “Well, Oh! we’re strong!” She put a hoof to her chest and held her head high. “I can crush rocks with my bare hooves, and you!” Pinkie wrapped her hoof around AJ’s arm. “I can almost feel the muscles on this arms.” She did the same to her back legs. “And all that apple bucking really made these legs strong too.” Pinkie stood up and poked her friends flank, making AJ finch. “And you have a flank that's tough enough to withstand a smack!”
“Ey!” Applejack backed up “Personal space is somthin’ all ponies need Pinkie.”
Pinkie giggled and blushed. “Heh, sorry, but yeah, Those traits are totally what makes us special.” She widened her eyes and put on a smile.
AJ rolled her own eyes and sighed. “Some traits.” She pointed at Twilight who was conversing with Discord. “Twi can take apples off a tree with her frilly little magic.” She pointed at Rainbow Dash. “And Rainbow can make a sonic rain-whatever when she flies.”
“Sonic rainboom.” Pinkie corrected.
Applejack groaned. “Whatever, I’m just sayin’ that a unicorn and a pegasus can do what we do, maybe even better!”
Pinkie frowned. “Don’t say that Applejack. We can make food way better then them.”
“Anyone can cook Pinkie…” AJ sneered. “I’m sure Fluttershy makes food for her animals, and Twi can just poof up somethin’ for her to eat.”
Pinkie wanted to object, but Applejack had a point. Maybe all ponies can plan food, and make it, but earth ponies had more than that. “But we’re strong Applejack, we can-”
“Am pretty sure if I fight a unicorn, she or he will just blast me to bits,” AJ said sternly. “and a pegasus can just fly in the air and dive bomb me.” She stomped her hoof on the ground again. “Ah hate to admit it Pinkie, but they have the upper hoof when it comes to the stuff we do.”
“B-but we do it better. Remember in the history books, how all the different types of ponies hated each other.”
Applejack raised an eyes at her again. “And why are you bringing that up?”
“I’m just saying that we were in control of what everypony ate. The other ponies wouldn’t of even-”
“They would’ve sooner or later Pinkie. It’s so easy anyway.” AJ dug a hole in the ground and started demonstrating the process. “All ya have to do is put a packet of seeds in the ground,” She covered the hole up and spit on it. “pour water on em’,” She pointed to the sun, which was next to the moon. “and shine some sun on it, and BAM.” She slammed her hoof in on top of the mound of dirt. “Ya got food. So easy a filly can do it.” She looked away from Pinkie to hide the anger in her face. “Ah’m surprised they didn’t kill us off.”
This was starting to get awkward for Pinkie, and it was hard for ponies to do that to her. “Well, we...uh...we can….um….”
Applejack faced her again. “What Pinkie? What can we do, what can ponies like us do that they can't! What special talent do we have that they don't!”
“I DON’T KNOW!” Pinkie yelled. Both of them realized this and took a look at their friends; it was still the same. “They’re still talking?”
Applejack shrugged. “Seems like it.”
Pinkie calmed down and rubbed her arm. “Uh..Sorry for yelling AJ.”
Applejack sighed, knowing she was getting worked up to. “And am sorry for getting all worked up. It’s just that-” She looked back at the dramatic scene of pegasi and unicorns losing the only thing they had that was special to them. “They don’t even know what it’s like.” Applejack said coldly.
“Know wha-” Pinkie stopped once she understood what Applejack was talking about. “Oh yeah.” She sighed. “Being a...mud pony.” Pinkie cringed when she said that, being called a mud pony was a pretty hurtful insult to say for an earth pony. It just reminds pegasus and ‘high class’ unicorns that they can fly and sleep on clouds, or rest in actual beds, while they are stuck on the ground; sleeping in hay,
“Ah’ve been called that once.” She looked at Pinkie, who looked back in shock. “Ah know, that was my same expression.”
“Really?” Pinkie rested her hoof on AJ’s back. “Who? What sick pony would do-”
“Ah didn’t even know her. She just walked up to me and asked ‘Hey! What kind of cider you selling, mud runner!’” Applejack held her head low and sighed. Pinkie stood beside her and rubbed her back, trying her best to comfort her. “But yeah,” Applejack continued. “what kind of cruel pony do you have to be to say somethin’ so...so…” AJ grinded her teeth, not even wanting to say it.
“Racist…” Pinkie said blankly, making Applejack groan at how right she was.
“Yeah.” AJ nodded. “That…”
Pinkie patted her back. “Well, there’s worse things ponies call each other you know.”
Applejack brushed Pinkie’s hoof off of her. “Ah know, Pinkie, Ah’ve heard every one of them. Stick heads, bone heads, air heads, winged suprematists,” Applejack continued to list off every term she knew from her own folks at home, even ones that weren't ponies. “beaked buggers, zig-.”
Pinkie backed away from her and gasped before Applejack could finished. “Ay Jay!” She yelled sternly.
“What!” Applejack threw her arms in the air. “They call us filthy mud runners, why don’t we call em-”
“Because that’s not right.” Pinkie ran up to her. “Fighting fire with fire only get’s you burnt, Applejack.”
AJ crossed her hooves and looked away. “Ah ain’t doin’ that; am just puttin’ the fire out, sugar cube.”
“By saying mean things to them too” Pinkie rubbed her hooves together. “How do you know all those names anyway?”
Applejack opened her eyes and looked down. “Ah know em...from...mah family okay.” She hung her head and closed her eyes, not wanting to see whatever stern look Pinkie was giving her.
“You too?”
Applejack’s ear twitched at that sentence. “What?” She looked up at Pinkie again, seeing that she was frowning.
“Y-yeah...The pie family does the same,” Pinkie started looking down. “I never really liked it when my dad said things like that whenever others came by.”
AJ put on the same expression. “Same here, at least ah didn’t just let it roll off mah tongue all the time.” Applejack chuckled and tried to grin, but when she saw that Pinkie wasn’t doing the same, she returned to her frowning face, which turned into a furious face once she looked up at Discord again. “No…”
“What?” Pinkie asked.
“Pinkie,” AJ faced her. “Are we gonna let some low down, self centered, flyin’ monster remind us why we’re the lower class.”
Pinkie didn’t like the way Applejack described them, but when she looked at Discord, she started feeling the same way. “No.” She said in anger “No we are not!”
“Are we gonna let him make us look like useless ponies that don’t deserve respect!”
“NO!”
“Are we gonna remind him that earth ponies can fight back!”
“No!...er...I mean, Yes!”
“Then come on.” She started walking to the group again. “Let’s go show em’ that we deserve some respect.”
“Yeah.” Pinkie started bouncing beside her. “And that we have things that can totally make this unfair for him!”
Applejack grinned. “Let’s go show him what em' mud runner can do.”
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This gun be good.
Fuckin' dirty...z-...ziggers?
heh ziggers
this is why if i was a pony id be a earth pony
wings and magic are cool but they make you week
take them a way and your screwed cus you never lived you life without them
Still prefer the Unicron master race
If i was a Unicorn it would be easy yes, but getting up to get a book isnt hard. so if he discord horn removal spray was a thing i'd be pissed, but later on OK
GO DIRT PONY GO !!!!!
Ahem! I mean, Ground Pony.... more socially acceptable......
Hurrah for Earth Ponies!
According to Faust, however, Earth Ponies do have thier own type of magic. Here's the link: Lauren Faust discussing Earth ponies
I'm not saying this story is bad, on the contrary, I thought this was excellent. Keep up the good work!
Repeating:
Earth ponies have magic in biomancy, geomancy, petromancy, and even myomancy.
The also channel magic through their mane and tails, so that would be...(searches) malliamancy
Earth ponies are more technologically creative. Look at Pinkie's helicopter!
Yeah. If this wasn't a fanfic then they would be screwed for messing with Discord. Too many people underestimate him for acting all silly and forget he is a very old powerful immortal chaos spirit. Two mortal ponies, no matter how awesome, could actually hurt someone who even Celestia is scared of.
Earth Pony delusion about "honest work without magic" always amused me. I bet without their magic, they couldn't even pull their carts and grow croops "human way", with fertilizers instead of "green thumb" magic.
I don't like this story already just because I disagree with the idea that earth ponies can't do all that stuff better than pegasi or unicorns. There much more adaptable and most of the spells you brought up are things only Twilight had the skill or talent to do, not typical unicorn stuff. Also there's no reason to assume earth ponies couldn't win in a fight, most unicorns special talents don't lead themselves to firing laser beams so its a huge assumption to say they could all do it, ditto with pegasai and divebombing, whereas all earth ponies are going to be physically strong. besides even if they could do those things to a degree magic and flight both work like muscles in that the're useless without being trained so it's a huge leap to say that the earthponies wouldn't be strong enough to just take the hit. You've also completely ignored that earth ponies do have a magic connection to the earth by saying its stuff anyone could do. But it's not, your just ignoring the canon to support your own points and assuming the magic is unnecessary. It's a stupid argument because it's ignoring logic and established facts and it's already ruined the story for me. I mean what's the moral going to be at the end of this? Earth ponies aren't a lesser species and it's bad to be racist. well I already think that so not much point in reading.
Yes, let's be completely insensitive to our friends' mutilation while denigrating ourselves.
Sorry, not buying it. Neither the headcanon nor the characterization.
finally a story that elaborates on this, although I would be more estactic if they were more in character. And if there was more story, and if your grammar had been improved. but still, a 5/10nonetheless
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Or AJ and Pinkie just think that and are currently caught up in the moment of not having what their friends have, arguments and jealousy tend to do that...I think.
And deep down inside, I think they're just mad at Discord for not taking their magic away from them, thinking that power's like theirs wouldn't unbalance his game.
And moral? Not all stories need that, this is just entertainment.
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And headcanon? I don't think this way at all! I personally think those two earth ponies would've dashed through and destroy those hedges if Discord wasn't in control of the maze itself. You could say that's him taking away their own powers in a way, but he could've at least mentioned it to them.
As for the characterization....well...ya got me there.
It's kinda hard figuring out how they would act like this on a personal level.
So sorry for being awful on that department
I'll try my best next chapter
I you guys even want one...
AJ has a point. Pinkie doesn't.
Pinkie, and later on Cheese Sandwich, show that some earth ponies are capable of incredibly impossible things. Creating anything from nothing, being anywhere they want to be, premonitions and, of course, their inventions. There are many things Pinkie is capable of that Twilight can't even explain, let alone attempt, and are remarkably not entirely unique to her.
I always figure earth ponies were farmers or builders were for they are stronger, could take a pounding that other ponies can't and can grow food that is not harmful to other.
Oh well, it be intersting to see what the others think about it as well. I think Twilight would make it worst not because she called them weak, but because she points out how valuable they are for the continue survival despite even she despise. Sort of how while the pesants are the lower class near the end of the Dark Ages that became the wealthiest for their were few of that demand went up.
4760541 Pinkie Pie isn't an Earth Pony, she's an Eldritch Abomination.
FINALLY!
A FIC WHERE EARTH PONIES ACTUALLY GET ACKNOWLADGED THAT THEY DESERVE SOMETHING THAT MAKES THEIR KIND INTERESTING!!!!!!!!! 
Rainbow Dash.
a mud pony... That sounds like a (now, don't get the wrong idea, Muggle-borns are awesome) a mud-blood from Harry Potter
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This story is funny and with most comedy a little fudging to make the set up pitch take off is fine if it's in acceptable ranges. And this totally is. I really enjoyed the touching argument and them trying to see their own "cool skills" while failing to see their own merits. It was a good set up for their attempts to come next. However successful, or unsuccessful they might be, you've set up a lot of wiggle room for humor with this. This is fun, interesting, and I enjoyed it. So, please give unto us more goodness! In return, you may have a this comment, a star, and a thumb.
I really like this idea
Can't wait to see the reaction those two get, from Discord.
I had always entertained the idea that the earth ponies were the tanks of the 3 races. Being in-tune, or "grounded" so closely to Mother Nature, it had granted them a natural strength, capable of shrugging off magic like it was nothing and growing trees in the blink of an eye.
In short, when they hit, they hit hard.
You actually only need Pinkie's Applejack's tags for this story
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Except different usages I figure, with the term Mudblood for muggles being that they have "Mud" in their veins due to the lack of their ability for magic.
I Figure Mud Ponies would be that they wallow in the mud, unable to fly and with unicorns standing higher.
4763549 Same here. My head canon was that they have a natural affinity to the earth. It's not that they are only good for farming, but that they have a connection with the ground, the pegasi have a connection with the air, and unicorns have a connection with...magic?
This is the part where they sue the shit out of Discord for discrimination on racial grounds.
...Eh.
What hinders this is the fact that Earth Ponies obviously do have magic, as stated by Lauren Faust. In an alternate universe this could work, but as it is I'm not buying it.
4760398 So you're saying that they're jealous? That seems very out of character for both of them.
4760398 Yush! MOAR!!!
4758313 I know what you meant, lol
In the season 4 finale, it's briefly implied that earth ponies have some sort of inner strength. This reinforces the theory that earth ponies, while without any fancy tricks, are strong and durable.
4767351 And let's not forget what Cheerilee did too
Pullin' a Saxton Hale right there.
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This fic definitely has the potential to dryly humorous as long as you don't allow Pinkie or AJ to wallow in bitterness, and eventually highlight some earth pony strength and/or endurance. Admittedly, earth pony traits portrayed in the show itself are rather subtle, and too often I think underplayed, like when AJ and Rainbow were evenly matched for ground based competitions. That always bothered me a little bit. But anyway, just keep the humour aspect of fic going, and I'll keep reading!
I enjoyed this, but I'm going what for a few chapters before I favorite.
I think that in Equestria, Earth pony magic is required to actually make the seeds grow, the same way pegasus magic is required to control the weather (yes Rarity was able to manipulate weather, but she did a really shitty job of it, and I have a feeling that any other unicorn would have fucked it up just as bad) and unicorn magic is required to... do whatever.
I think that the reason Discord didn't take anything from the Earth ponies is for one of three reasons:
A. He simply was/is lacking in knowledge about creatures of the equine variety, and didn't realize Earth ponies even had magic of any sort.
B. He was aware of Earth pony magic, but knew that it wouldn't give them an advantage in his setup. For instance, maybe there was a chance one of the unicorns, particularly a powerful one like Twilight, could disable his discordation, and a pegasus could simply fly away, like Rainbow Dash when she was discorded and took her wings back. So he simply didn't bother to take it.
C. This is the one that seems the most likely to me. Remember how in the season 4 finale, Tirek had to steal unicorn magic, and then pegasus magic, before he was able to steal Earth pony magic? My theory is that Discord isn't powerful enough to steal something that isn't physically apparent. Of course he didn't want to admit this to them.
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Anyways, I think it was a combination of B and C. Still, I agree.
4758668 Unicron Master race?
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I still like the tryptec explanation. The Earth ponies keep their abilities quiet, when they can earthbend. Or some equivalent.
4769038 no offense to AJ and Pinkie but I'm guessing that it was either theory A or B and that Tirek only stole earth pony "magic" last because they don't really have magic and he was probably just stealing their life force energy and strength. Again, no offense intended for fans of AJ and Pinkie or other earth pony fans. But while watching the episode where Discord takes away their horns and wings i always wondered how earth ponies would feel in that situation. I would walk right up to those unicorns and pegasi and be all "You little piles of ungrateful crap! 'Oh no, our magic is gone! How are we ever going to live? Like 20 minutes of my life is going to be soooo horrible! ' I mean, jeeze, I'm RIGHT HERE, you know? try being more considerate! You don't here me crying about not having magical powers and me and Apple jack here haven't had any for our ENTIRE lives! I didn't know anyone could be so rude! " and then I'd punch Twilight and Rarity in the face and do the same with Rainbow and Fluttershy before grabbing Apple jack and running into the maze at top speed.
It could be that Earth ponies don't have any particular magic, they are just physically superior (higher strength, more stamina, longer lifespans, that kind of thing.)
4771919 I like the idea they have a special connection with the ground.
Unicorns can plant things but only Earth Ponies can make them grow as fast and strong.
But it's fine, after all, you're all inferior to the Changeling master race. Bow down and accept the gift of our...love...
Not if you're fireproof.
I don't think Discord wanted to remind them that they're low class, it seemed more like a... Great Equalizer. Like Death, but less ... death.
I really dislike this idea. It overlooks the fact that removing their wings or horns is actually mutilating them
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That was acknowledged to be a continuity error, Granny Smith isn't supposed to be centuries old. The bit about all the old ponies being earth ponies stands, though. Star Swirl is the only exception I can think of and he was magical as hell, so he's kind of a special case.
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And that they've had those abilities for their entire lives, which means they haven't developed the same skills that earth ponies use to get things done without telekinesis or wings. In Rainbow and Twilight's case, these are also things they've essentially built their lives around.