Sunny Knight: a Pony's Tale

by TheothersideofSunny968

Everyone has a Tale to tell

After Mourning Cloak was delt with, Discord regained his power and was able to send everypony and creature back to where they belonged in their own respective dimension and times. He thanked the Doctor Whooves known as 11 for all the help in gathering the other Doctors and bringing him the microphone and speaker. It was surprising to hear that 11 was working closely with Discord this entire time, but since everything turned out alright in the end, most ponies tried not to think about it, say for Twilight who kept a closer eye on the master of chaos from there on.

The petal ponies decided to make a life for themselves and started small settlement village south of the Crystal Empire, west of the Rainbow falls. They recieved alot of tourism from ponies and other creatures traveling the Crystal Empire express from Canterlot to the Crystal Empire. The petal ponies kept their living simple by growing houses from actually foliage rather then cutting down trees to make homes, since they were living plants now. Rosewood occasionally visited King Apsen in the Everfree on peace missions, making sure to stop in and see her uncle and the Apples whenever she did so.

Whittler had taken up residence in Ponyville working in a wood shop where he continued to do what he loved. Working with wood. He started making wooden furniture, gadgets and even toys. Toy figures of Sunny sold fairly well, especially the ones with the removable Black Knight armor. Some things he really enjoyed making were furniture that could go from one thing into another. His latest project was a rocking chair that was supposed to turn into a dinningroom table. But it kept locking up half way through the transformation. But he was confident he was going to perfect it soon.

The Daleks that Derpy and Pinkie won over had gone back to Scaro with the Thals and Kelads. They may not have been the winged ones the planet's legends spoke of, but the Daleks could actually fly, which would be a great help to Rose Bud and the rest of the inhabitants of the planet. So long as they all promised to behave themselves, the Kelads and Thals promised to celebrate their birthdays.

The Power Ponies, Hum Drum, Sunday Sprinkles and the Dark Detective said their quick farewells and happily returned to their comic book universe with the help of Discord. Although future issues showed the Dark Detective still annoyed the Masked Matter-Horn with his reckless actions and self centered attitude, the two would continue to answer the other's call for help should they ever need one another.

The former Supreme King Sunny and HIS Applejack went back to their own dimension, ready to take the rest of the day off before getting up early the next morning to start the day's chores. Sitting on the porch swing, his hoof around HIS Applejack, staring into the orchard without a care in the world with the only sound being the swishing breeze, the former Supreme King Sunny couldn't help but smile. He had lived in a castle with everything a pony could ask for, but had been miserable, never able to enjoy any of it. Now, he spends his days farming, planting vegetables, harvesting apples, taking care of farm critters, and doing chores. THIS was the life he enjoyed. Without a word form either of them, the former Supreme King bent down and kissed HIS Applejack and nuzzled her. HIS Applejack was hesitant at first to bring her former, tyrant ruler home with her, but there was something deep inside that told her that he belonged there. She never imagined that she would fall for the former king. Or that they were scheduled to be married in a few weeks.

Saphire Shores and her dancing crew all celebrated with a party in Manehatten that was totally off the hook. Saphire even gave her crew the next day to recover. But the day after that, they had to prepare for their next show which would be in Canterlot.

Hot Iron and the rest of the citizens of Iron Hill went back to their home town, ready to share the story of the battle and erect new statue depicting their town hero fighting, along side Sunny Knight, against armored enemies. No pony knew that it wasn't the same Sunny Knight who they had delt with before. They were happy just believing the two were possibly friends. Hot Iron still toyed around with the idea of a name change to Iron Knight, asking his marefriends her opinion. To which she shoved another protein drink in his mouth and told him new name or not he was who he was, and to drink up, that he would need his strength.

The three elite guards of Midnight Blossom, Cloud Skipper and Charming Knight, were all given the payed vacation they deserved, and spent it in half on a cruse airship relaxing, half at Los Pegasis where they took in the shows, Midnight Blossom lost all her bits at the Poker table, and Cloud Skipper was chosen from the crowd for a magic show. When the trio returned to active duty by the end of the three weeks, an important mission awaited them. Apparently strange noise were coming from the sewers , and citizens were reporting odd glowing lights from the storm drains. They suited up and prepared for work.

Oddly enough, no record of the Battle at the Crystal Empire was ever recorded in the history of prince Razor Claw of Griffonstone. That is, until a gryffin historian uncovered his missing journal and read the part of it that described how HE and his men faught valiantly along side an owl that rode a giant metal beast. The Historian reported it to Griffonstone's council, who told him to just put that dusty old book in a museum. Apparently the whole story was already covered in the local paper.

Snowstorm was granted a Pardon for his war crimes, and offered a position in the royal guard, but turned it down. He instead went on to get his degree in teaching, having heard that a new school would be opening up near Ponyville soon. But before he did that, Snowstorm planned to confront his patents and fill them in on everything he had done. The good and the bad. But again, that's another story for another time.

After Mourning Cloak was delt with, the spell that kept Radiant Hope locked in crystal was broken. After taking a few moments to recover, Radiant was met by Sombra, who apologized profusely to his sister like friend, who he imprisoned. She of course forgave him, but he had to treat her to whatever she wanted to eat. She was starving, and had a very odd request for a desired meal. She wanted a stack of waffles as high as he was, with each waffle alternating between regular, multi grain, chocolate chip, and blue berry, with none of the waffle alternating, and never touching the same kind, but also in a different order, all drizzled with enough Crystal berry syrup to coat the entire stack, with whipped cream as big as a crown with three cherries on top. She chowed down with Pinkie Pie, who asked for the same order, stating that Radiante had some great taste.

The Pie family joined Pinkie, Radiant, Sombra and Sunny for waffles. The rest of them ate just a short stack of buttermilk waffles, avoiding looking at the sugary monstrosity the two mare's were consuming with great vigar. Once their meal was done, Sunny thanked them all for coming to his aid and offered them all to come and stay at the farm anytime they liked. Limestone did the same, with less enthusiasm, followed up by shooting Sombra a hard look as she told him to stay away from Holder's Boulder. He gulped and vowed never to go near Holder's Boulder. And with that, the Pie family went their separate ways. Most back to the farm, Pinkie back to Ponyville, and Maud to look for a place to live once she graduated collage next year.

Ponies at the Ponyville construction site were relieved to see their Bull-Doz-R was returned, but more then a little shocked that it was returned in such a state. It had swords, spears and chunks of black armor embedded in it. The boss of the construction group, a short mare with a muzzle like a toad came out to inspect it and began yelling at everypony else for neglecting to tell her it was missing. Half way through her rant, a horrid screech that could shatter glass redirected the angry boss's attention. A frightening owl, who looked as though he had seen better days, flew down and landed on the boss pony's shoulder. She decided to keep the creature as a pet, claiming it told her his name was Toast. He would help her keep an eye on her lazier construction workers and was sure to let them know when their 10 minute break was up or when they've been in the bathroom for too long.

Running away as fast as he could from the construction sight, Crackers, Sunny's pet farret, ran all the way back to the Apple farm, into the farm house, up the stairs, hopped up on Sunny's bed, and happily passed out. He slept for almost two days, which was completly normal for ferrets who ran as much as he just did. He dreamt of having tea with other pets in a castle where he sat in a circle of arm chairs, wearing a top hat and monical, holding a conversation about the Equestrian economy with a Toad, a Badger, a Raven and a Cat. They all adressed him as Charles, and they went by Trevor, Helga, Rowena, and Minerva respectively. It was an odd dream, to say the least. But enjoyable.

Pappy and Princess Amore decided to lead the newly reformed Umbrum, who all wanted to go out into Equestria and try the things they only just started to dream about. They would have a hard time dealing with them all and keeping them in line if Twilight Sparkle didn't make an offer to have them attend a friendship school she and her friends were starting togeather. It would help the umbrum home their skills, adjust to a life of not just feeding on others, and possibly make friends. The reformed changelings had planned on attending the school as well. It would help in the fact that the changelings and Umbrum's situations were so similar.

Thorax had taken the changelings back to Chrysalis's old hive and fixed it up with peaceful flowers, tapestries the more creative changelings wove, and actual homes. Not just hidding holes. The changelings took to their new roles in life rather quickly. Possibly like the umbrum, they always secretly wanted a more peaceful life, that didn't involve needing to feed on others. Alot of them were eager for when the first semester of Twilights school would begin.

Ipsy, the kelpy, had finnaly gathered enough strength to free herself from the confines of the land based bodies of water and entered the ocean surounding the west coast of Equestria. With a final wave, she bid her friends farewell, but promised that she would visit again some day. Setting off on a journey to find her family, Ipsy would come across sea monsters, an underwater civilization, a pirate and merpony who were in love but kept apart by family, and even some cursed treasure guarded by a twelve armed squid, but that's also another story for another time.

Torch lead the dragons who faught on both sides at the fight back to the dragon lands to tell his daughter, and all within a ten mile radius, of the great battle between Sunny's friends and allies against the dark army. He did fudge it a little when it came to the part about taking down Garganda, claiming to have knocked the giant dragon over all on his own, without breaking a sweat.

Garganda, himself, decided to move the treasure he had been guarding originally and take a good long nap where no pony would bother him; out in the middle of the ocean. The sound of the waves soothed him and allowed him to relax with just his head sticking up out of the water. He found a nice secluded part of the ocean between Equestria and the land of the centaurs. No creature questioned why a smoking black island appeared out of nowhere, becouse whenever Garganda snored, they feared the island might erupt.

For showing courage in the face of danger and answering a call to duty, Lighting Dust and the other Shadowbolts were cleared of all charges. But they still weren't made Wonderbolts. They would have to go through academy training and pass just like everypony else. This time around, Lightning Dust decided she would make the strive to help others and not leave them in her dust.

Wind Rider, on the other hoof, got his title of retired Wonderbolt back and a new chapter in the Wonderbolt's history book about his aid in the battle. Though, in order to be fully redeemed, he had to complete five years of janitorial service at the Wonderbolts academy. He didn't mind so much. It reminded him of his earlier years as a cadet, and put him in a more humble state of mind. That, and he got to see his granddaughters train and practice with the other cadets. He hasn't touched a mug of Cider since.

Everypony else, meaning the royal family, the Guardians of Harmony, the Elements of Harmony, and Princess Luna all had a wedding to prepare for. One that, although would be marked in the hystery books as a point that would change all of Equestria, would be kept small and as private as could be, with one specific reporter and her bird assistant being the only member of the press allowed to attend.

Celestia and Sombra's wedding was held in the Canterlot castle, in the same ballroom where the two of them first met. With only their closest friends and family present. After the Cutie Mark Crusaders, as the flower girls, sprinkled pink and white rose pettles down the aisle, pathing the way for them, Sunny walked his mother down the aisle, leading her past her faithful student and her friends on one side, Sunny's friends on the other, leading up to the alter where her own sister, Princess Luna, stood smiling at her sister as the officiant. Radiant Hope begged Celestia to let her be the maid of honor. Celestia planned on asking her anyway if she wasn't too busy. And along with giving his mother away, Sunny was proud to be his father's best colt.

After the exchange of vows, Sunny levitated the rings to his father, who placed one ring on Celestia's horn, and the other on his own. With that, by the power vested in Luna, Celestia and Sombra were now wife and husband, and shared their first kiss as such. Most ponies cheered. Sunny, Applejack, Radiant Hope, Rarity and Shinning Armor all cried tears of joy and 'liquid pride'. After the reception, Celestia and Sombra boarded an air ship that would begin their two week long honeymoon. Celestia had asked Twilight before hoof if she would mind helping Luna run Equestria while she was gone. Twilight was overwhelmed but assured her mentor that she would be honored and could handle it.

Which meant of course that they had to deal with the return of several villains, multiple friendship problems and a few natural disasters. But again, that's another story for another time.

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Looking at herself in the mirror, Applejack tried to stop her hooves from shaking, but found she lacked the strength to do so.

"Applejack, darling, I'm your friend and I understand the pre wedding gitters, but if you don't stop moving, I'm going to have Twilight use a paralyzing spell on you." Rarity told her friend in a politel, threatening manner.

"Ah'm sorry, Rares. Ah guess ah just… excite? Nervous? What does Pinkie say? Nervicited?" Applejack apologized, taking a breath to try and calm herself and stop her legs from shaking.

Looking at herself in the mirror again, Applejack could hardly believe that she was actually wearing that dress. Her wedding dress. It was exactly as she hoped it would be. A short train connected to a white and green south western style dress, to match both Sunny's eyes and the orchards leaves. Wearing four white, studded cowboy boots on each of her hooves, a studded, white stetson hat to match, and an emerald necklace given to her by her future mother in law, made from the crystals beneath Canterlot over 1000 years ago. It counted as her something old. Her entire outfit was her something new, which Rarity made to her exact specifications. Her something borrowed and blue was the garter under her dress around her back left leg, which Rarity insisted on lending her, even if she didn't get it back when it was tossed later.

It was finally the day she and Sunny hard waited for. The day they exchanged vows and began their life togeather. So much had happened in the last month that she nearly forgot their set date for the wedding. Since the day at the Empire, their lives seemed to fly by up until this very day.

"You look magnificent" Rarity commented a she looked over her friend one last time, pulling Applejack out of her dazed state. "Oh! I truly outdid myself this time! You look like a south west princess!"

"I agree" a regal voice rang out from the doorway as Celestia stepped inside. She had worn a rather plane violet dress that accented only one of her mane's natural colors. Smiling at Applejack, Celestia asked "Is there anything I can get you? Anything I can do yo help?"

"Don't you worry about a thing, your majasty, we-" Rarity started to say when Applejack interrupted.

"Ah could use ah glass of water. Kinda feelin' light headed" Applejack said, ignoring Rarity who was shooting her an astonished and flabbergasted look. Rarity could hardly believe Applejack just asked Princess Celestia, one of the two co-rulers of equestria, for a glass of water!

"Anything the bride needs on her big day" Celestia said with a smile as she poured a glass of water from a picture on a table in the corner and levitated it over to Applejack.

Truth be told, Applejack was a little thirsty, but she also knew Celestia wanted to help in any way she could. She had been there to help prepare a guest list, send out invitations, taste test the food, and even to set things up for the day like chairs and tables. It's something Celestia always wanted; to feel like a real mother giving away her son. After drinking the water down and passing the glass back to princess Celestia, Applejack thanked her.

"Is there anything else you need?" Celestia asked, casually smiling at her soon to be daughter in law.

Applejack looked to Rarity who shook her head. "Ah don't think so. Actually, ah think we're ready, aren't we?"

"Just about" Rarity stated right before levitating a bride's maid's outfit over her own head, then used her magic to position it just right around her figure. After double checking herself in the mirror, Rarity turned to princess Celestia and asked her "is the father outside ready to give Applejack away?"

This brought a smile to Celestia's muzzle, glowing with pride. "Yes he is. Are you ready?"

Her quesgion was more directed to Applejack, who hopped off her podium, adjusted her stetson, and nodded nervously, wishing she either drank more water, ate more food, less food, or less water. Whatever it would take to get rid of the butterflies in her stomach.

Stepping out of the room, Celestia moved aside and allowed a well dressed dark grey stallion to appear in the doorway. His gentle green eyes reminded Applejack so much of Sunny. "Are you ready, my soon to be daughter?"

If anypony had asked Applejack a few months ago if she was happy to become the daughter in law of King Sombra, she would have answered with a hardneed expression with different answers depending on if Sunny was in the room or not. But after all his hard work and devotion to making things right, Applejack could say honestly that she was very proud. He was definatly his son's father.

"Ah'm as ready as ah'll ever be" Applejack answered. 'Sides, sooner we get hitched, sooner ah can ditch this dress. It looks nice, but it ain't exactly built fer comfort.'

Her hoof wrapping around his front leg, Sombra led Applejack out of the dressing room, followed by Rarity. The Dressing room was actually a hall closet in the Apple Familt farm house that was extended and enhanced thanks to a few spells done by Princess Celestia and Princess Cadence. They performed the spell for both of their weddings previously, and had mastered it.

Sombra was cautious to hold onto Applejack and move at a speed so she would not trip or fumble in her new boots. Despite what Rarity had told her, Applejack didn't exactly break her new boots in as much as she should have. For once, she didn't want to get her boots muddy.

The walk up the trail didn't take long, and soon, the two had reached the rows of seats where their friends and family gathered. On one side, the entire Apple family, even those who didn't show up to the family reunion made it. On the other side, Sunny's family and close friends. The New Guardians of Harmony, Sunny's mother, Princess Luna, Shinning Armor, Flurry Heart, Rosewood, Whittler, Radiant Hope, Pappy, Princess Amore, as well as several reformed Umbrum and changelings were on the Sunny's side. At the alter which was placed near Applejack's parents tree, stood Princess Cadence, who offered to be the officiant, Applejack's friends who were her bride's maids, Twilight being her mare of honor, Big Mac who was Sunny's best colt, then of course, the groom himself nearest to the alter.

Sunny's muzzle lit up the moment he saw Appplejack, his back straitening up, chest puffed out, and the widest smile spread across his muzzle that anypony had ever seen. He was dressed in a new tuxedo that Rarity insisted on making herself. It was made of a fine new silk she had acquired from a shop in Canterlot that made clothing only for royal family members. Accented with a tie and vest made of a woven material consisting of actual emerald dust, giving it a reflective shine in the light. Sunny also wore a stetson hat, but insisted on wearing his usual one that he recieved from Goldie Delicious before coming to Ponyville. But what shocked Applejack and brought a smile to her muzzle was, despite Rarity's comment of 'a hat on a hat', Sunny still wore Applejack's father's bolo tie that she gave him for the Gala. She had to fight back tears after she saw the item around her soon to be husband's neck. It was like a little part of her father was there to enjoy the wedding with them. It's funny, she used to be so good at hidding her emotions and crying on the inside, but since being with Sunny, her emotions seemed to overflow, in a good way.

"Ready?" Sombra asked Applejack in a low tone, smiling at her.

Without taking her eyes off her soon to be husband, Applejack nodded.

Everypony rose from their seats as Vynal Scratch started to play on her new turn table a country style version of 'Canon in D'. Applejack was lead slowly up the aisle by Sombra, everypony watching with smiles, some wiping away tears as they watched Applejack take the long walk into the next chapter of her life. Applejack wanted nothing more then for that walk to come to an end, so she could be right next to the stallion of her dreams.

When they reached the begining of the alter, Princess Cadence asked "who gives this mare away?"

"I, do, your majasty" Sombra said humbly.

"Thank you" Applejack whispered to Sombra, shooting him a smile.

He smiled and nodded in acknowledgement as he mouthed 'my pleasure' as he took an empty seat in the front row next to his own wife.

Applejack's eyes locked with Sunny's and the world seemed to disapear. She didn't even hear all of what Cadence was saying. She knew she had some time to just gaze into Sunny's emerald eyes. He was her hero, her best friend, her confidant. And she knew Sunny felt the same way about her. They could tell eachother anything, talk about any subject, work through any problem. And now, they were here, to make it official, and take the next big step in their lives. Applejack began fantasizing about the rest of their lives togeather so much that she almost missed her biggest line.

"Ugh, Applejack" Twilight nudged Applejack's side, freeing her from her day dream.

"Ugh, wah, oh! Ah do! Ah do!" Applejack giggled as she came back to reality, her gaze meeting Sunny's again.

"And Sunny, do you, take this mare to be your wife?" Cadence turned and asked Sunny.

"Ah sure do" Sunny answered with his accent, showing he was relaxed as he answered.

"Then by the Power vested in me, by the land of Equestria, I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may now kiss-"

Applejack and Sunny couldn't wait for Cadence to finish her declaration and went right for eachother. When their lips touched next, it was the first kiss they shared as husband and wife. Their eyes closed as they closed the space between one another, closing off from the rest of the world, everything and everypony else. The only thing that mattered at that moment was in eachother's hooves. They enjoyed the strength behind eachother's lips, having kissed many times, but this was one they didn't want to let go of. They wanted this moment to last forever, even though they knew better times were ahead of them. Sunny took in the natural scent of Applejack, smelling heavily like baked goods and the orchard. Applejack couldn't help but enjoy an oaky musk coming off Sunny himself, not that he smelled any different before, but she made sure to remember this smell for the rest of her life.

When the two finnaly separated, they came back to reality and the sound of their loved ones filled their ears. Turing at the same time to face the crowd, Applejack and Sunny smiled and waved to them all. Sunny's mother was holding his father's hoof, wiping away a few tears in a handkerchief that Sombra levitated up to her. It had all happened so fast, Celestia felt like she had only just gotten her son back, then her special somepony, and finnaly got married herself. Now she watched her son walk back down the asile with the love of his life. It was all very emotional for her.

Granny Smith cried a little but smiled widely at her oldest little girl as she walked with her husband in hoof. Silently, Granny whispered 'there goes yer daughter, Bright Mac, Pear Butter. She's in good hooves.'

As a chariot pulled by royal guards drove up to take Sunny and Applejack off to their honeymoon, there was a loud explosion coming in the direction of town, followed up by a loud chuckling of an unfamiliar villain.

"You guys go on ahead" Twilight told Sunny and Applejack.

"We got this" Big Mac insisted, tearing off his clip on bow tie.

"We'll help as well" Celestia added, getting up from her seat along with her sister.

"Guess I get to play the good guy in this fight" Sombra stated as he joined his wife in standing up, his horn glowing green with his magical aura.

Both Sunny and Applejack turned to eachother and said at the same time "They can handle it."

Both chuckled and casually walked into the chariot, shutting the door behind them, and ridding off into the sunset. Many would describe this as a perfect ending, but just as the two ponies in the carrage held one another, they knew this was only the begining of a new life togeather. A life both of them worked hard to set up, and will continue to build. Becouse, life and love are alot like an orchard. You can't just plant the trees and water it once and expect fruits to grow. It takes commitment, care, and nurture. Which Applejack and Sunny had every intent on giving one another.

Where one tale ends, another begins…

Author's Note:

We all saw these endings coming, and now, here they are. Are they tied up neatly with abow on top, well, no. But sometimes stories do have a nearly happy ending. But like I said, sometimes the end of one tale, is the beginning of another.

One more chapter will be posted, then this tale, only for another to begin.

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