Sunny Knight: a Pony's Tale

by TheothersideofSunny968

Secret's revealed!!!

Back in the Everfree Forest, behind the large bolder, and inside the cave where Sunny kept the items from his past life as Prince of the Crystal Empire, the yellow stallion was zooming around, re-re organizing everything, excited about his most recent accomplishment.

"Ivedoneit! Ivedoneit! Ivedoneit!!!" He continued to move at super sonic speeds. "Ivefinallycrackedfather'scodeandcanfixScoop,Dumb-Bell,andScoreandnotfeelanysinceofguiltfromthehorrableeventeveragain!!!"Sunny's words still running all together, making him almost impossible to understand. But it didn't really matter. No pony was there to understand his gibberish anyway.

He then began to place his father's books on a book shelf he recently made in the past few moments. Sunny knew leaving his father's books back at the farm was risky, and since he no longer needed to decode them, he though it would be wise to keep them out of sight. The yellow unicorn would just have to hide them when Spike came around. Which hopefully wouldn't be anytime soon. Sunny still had a lot of work to do! He had so many spells he wanted to practice, so much he's learned from his father's books that he couldn't wait to try out! The things those books had within them could make even Twilight Sparkle's head turn!

Back at the Apple Farm, Twilight showed Applejack the contents of the book she found. "It appears to be the same dead language that was written in Sombra's books. My question is; how did Sunny get his hooves on them? And how long has he had them?"

Applejack then smacked one hoof on top of the other, realizing she actually had the answers to Twilight's questions. "Ah think ah know! Sunny was hangin' 'round that Doctor Whooves feller ah while ago. Sunny said Doctor gave him some books, those must be them!"

Twilight took a closer looks at a few of the books, and accidentally flipped one open to the back cover page. There she found a message written in blue ink;

Thank you for your help, Doctor and Derpy. I'll never forget you. Allons-y!

-Tinkerer

Studying the note over and over again, Twilight eventually smiled and nodded. "Looks like that checks out. Remind me to ask Sunny to barrow these books later. I would love to copy their contents for my library."

"But Twi" concern returned to Applejack's voice. "If those books there just 'bout read in' old jibber jabber, what is makin' Sunny go bonkers?"

"I don't know Applejack" With a heavy sigh, Twilight then slumped down, taking a seat on the ground, when her backside hit something hard. "Ugh! What was that?!"

Turning around, Twilight pulled something out from underneath Sunny's bed. It was another book!

"Now that's usin' yer head, er, backside, Twi! What does it say?!" Applejack asked, leaning in curiously.

After cracking the book open and levitating it in front of her with her magic, Twilight began to skim the pages. It didn't take her long to realize just what it was, and once she did, Twilight looked from the book to her earth pony friend. "Ugh, Applejack... This isn't a book. It's a journal... Sunny's been keeping a journal."

Applejack thought about it for a moment. Part of her wanted to respect Sunny's privacy, every pony had the right to that. But it might have something on why Sunny is acting this way. Swallowing her pride, Applejack nodded, motioning for Twilight to go ahead, unable to muster the strength to say the words herself.

With the go from Applejack, Twilight opened the journal up to the last couple of entries and began reading;

'Dear journal,

It's been several week since I saw my father, maybe even longer. But I still can't get the image of him out of my mind. Part of me wishes I never remembered what he looked like... And part of me wishes he could go back to being who he used to be...but I know that can never happen...'

Twilight paused and looked over at Applejack, wondering if she should continue. Applejack bit her lip then replied "maybe ya better just skim around for somethin' more around the last couple of days."

Twilight nodded then flipped ahead to the second to last page;

'Dear journal,

I'm so tired... I've been staying up late every night studying... Trying to decider the code... Have to set thing right...'

Flipping to the last page written in, Twilight began reading that part to herself then shut the book, blushing, then slid it back under the bed. 'NOPE! NOTHING THERE! HE MUST HAVE NOT WRITTEN ANYTHING DOWN!"

Applejack's deadpan face told Twilight she wasn't falling for that. "Sugarcube, what did ya'll read?"

"Ugh... Something I probably shouldn't have..." Twilight said with rosy red cheeks.

Curious, Applejack decided to pry a little. "Hey now... It wasn't about somepony we both know? Maybe even somepony in this room?"

"What are ya'll doin' in Sunny's room?" Apple Bloom's sudden appearance caught the two older ponies off guard.

"Apple Bloom! What are ya doin' here?" Applejack jumped. "Ain't ya supposed to be cleanin' th' pig pen today?"

"Sunny took care of it for me!" Apple Bloom said with glee. "According to your chore list, he's done everything we needed to do for the next week! All in one day! Isn't that great!"

"We ain't so sure bout that, Sugarcube" Applejack hung her head.

"Wait, why ain't it?" Apple Bloom asked, now starting to get nervous. "Ah mean, he's awake and able ta work and what not. Ain't that what we wanted?"

"Well yeah, kinda, but..." Applejack trailed off, letting Twilight continue the explanation.

"He might be doing more harm then good to himself. Who knows what spell he cast or what potion he might have brewed up to make himself act this way. He could get seriously hurt from it. It's not natural for a pony to be running around like that." Twilight explained, her voice very solemn.

Apple Bloom's victory in helping Sunny wake up and have energy to work, now seemed hallow. The little filly's head hung low now. She knew what she had to do, not really wanting to, but she knew she had to confess her actions. Especially if it was for Sunny's better health. Sighing heavily, Apple Bloom then confessed what she did to her sister and Twilight. She brought them to her room where she had the scroll from Zecora's hut and a few of the GoGoGo berries left.

"Ah'm real sorry, Applejack" Apple Bloom said as she sat on her back legs, head hanging even lower then before as she apologized. "Ah just wanted ta help. Ah never meant ta hurt no pony. 'Specially Sunny..."

"Ah understand, Sugarcube" Applejack patted her little sister on the head. "Ah ain't mad. But we need ta stop Sunny, it ain't good fer him ta be flying around here like ah greased up pig."

"Applejack's right" Twilight said after she finished reading the scroll Apple Bloom had about the GoGoGo berries. "According to the scroll, one Berry, even half of one would have been enough to keep him going for a day or two. But with as many as Apple Bloom gave him, Sunny might be in serious trouble!"

"Oh no!" Apple Bloom's heart sank, fearing that she had done something to really hurt Sunny.

"What can we do?" Applejack commented, worried about what might happen to Sunny if they don't stop him.

"Well luckily there's an easy way to reverse the effects of the GoGoGo berries. But we're going to need your help Apple Bloom, how fast do you think you can get to the spa?" Twilight said with a smirk, already hatching a plan.

Meanwhile, Sunny had just finished re-re-re-re-reorganizing his secret cave when he realized that he should put a third coat of wax on his old armor to really give it that shine. But he was all out of wax. He would have to make a trip into town. Still feeling like going a million miles per hour, Sunny dashed out of his cave after sealing it up, then zoomed into town. He was is such a hurry and so sure that he would be back in a flash, that he didn't close the bolder over the cave opening all the way.

Shooting down the road, kicking up a huge dust storm behind him, Sunny set his sights on the shop in town that sold wax, candles, and wood repairing sealers. He could have sworn that he heard something as he entered into the road nearest to the Apple farm that would lead him into town, but he chalked it up to just hearing things.

But that thing that Sunny thought he heard was actually Applejack trying to get his attention with one of her family's famouse apple pies. Sunny couldn't get enough of them, and she knew it was one of his favorite deserts. But the yellow unicorn just zoomed by, kicking up a wind that almost flung Applejack's Stetson hat right off of her head.

Twilight saw all of it from her position in the sky. And although she was no where near as fast a flyer as Rainbow dash (or most other ponies who have been flying their whole lives), she did have one advantage. Physics! Twilight knew that at the hight she was at, if she were to defend and fly strait down where Sunny was heading, that would be enough to land her right on top of him, and immobilize him for a brief moment. The alicorn princess pulled out a pair of flight goggles she borrowed from Rainbow Dash, and carefully secured them over her eyes. Reading herself, Twilight waited until the right moment, then sprang off the cloud she was on and began her dive. Twilight began flappy her wings at first to help gain momentum and direction, keeping her on course with the yellow unicorn. But soon she began picking up so much speed that she no longer needed to flap her wings. As the alicorn grew closer and closer, almost at the colossi on point where she would stop Sunny, a veritable took place. One that Twilight didn't take into account. About fifteen feet from the collision point, Sunny made a sudden change in direction, taking a sharp left. Twilight gulps as she struggled to stop herself, but she fell short, and the princess of friendship ended up crashing into a cabbage stand! After a moment of collecting herself, Twilight stuck her head up out of the broken stand, covered in broken pits of cabbage leaves.

"My Cabbages!!!" The vendor screamed while holding onto his head in outrage. He was a thin earth pony with a thin mustache and a thin goatee to match. He was on his knees now, thinking to himself 'why?! Why does this always happen to me and my cabbages?!'

A dazed and confused Twilight looked over to the vender and said "I can pay for that... Right after my nap..."

After that, Twilight passed out in the pile of broken up cabbages as the cabbage vender kept crying over the loss of his product. To all of this, Sunny was completely oblivious to.

As the yellow stallion continued speeding through town, it appeared nothing could stop him. It was int when a rainbow colored blurs tackled him that the speedy stallion was stopped. The two blurred collided and the rainbow bluer pushed the yellow one into a blue berry bush. Sunny was shaken for a moment, but when he opened his eyes, he recognized the blur immediately as Ponyville's fastest Pegasus.

"Ugh,hithereRainbowDash, what'sup?" Sunny's words were spread through now, making it almost impossible to understand.

Not needing to grasp what the yellow, super charged stallion had to say, Rainbow Dash smirked and told him. "Sunny! There you are! Applejack's been looking all over for you! She's over at the spa right now, with a big surprise for you!"

Sunny's heart already beating at an unnatural speed began to beat even faster and faster with the news. "Really?! Great!!! That'sawesome!!! Illheadoverthererightnow! Yeah! Rightnowisagoodtime! I'mnotdoingantthingrightnow! Well,nothingican'tdolater!ThanksRainbowDash!!!"

Before Rainbow could even accept the thanks, Sunny shot off like an earthbound bolt of lightning through town, with his new destination being the town's only spa.

Despite his incredible speed, and the fact that the town at this time was crowded with ponies, Sunny was able to miss every single one of them as he made his way to the spa. He maneuvered just slightly around them avoided hitting everyone as he zoomed in and out and all around them, eventually making it to the spa's front doors. Applejack stood by the door, happily holding it open for him.

"Right on in here, Sugarcube. Ah hope ya like it!" AppleJack said with an uneasy smile.

Sunny came to a brunt stop, kicking up a dust of wind with his halting hooves. "Wow! Thisissonice, Applejack. Inevercomehere, notbecouseidontlikedoingthis. Well, tobehonest, iveneverreallydonethisbefore, butidlovetocomeheresometimewithyou! Youknow, otherthentoday, imean. Anytimeyouwantwecancomehere, together."

Not really understanding the stallion, Applejack just nodded and motioned him inside with a smile. "Yep! Sounds great, Sugar Cube. Now hop on in!"

"Alright! Illseeyouinside, right?" Sunny said as he dashed on inside, only to zoom right into a giant tub of ice cold water . After being submerged in the frigid water, Sunny popped his head out, gasping for air trough a set of chattering teeth. "W-w-what I-I-is t-the meaning o-o-of this?!"

"Sorry Sunny, but it was for your own good" Twilight said as she, Applejack, Apple Bloom, Rainbow Dash, and the spa twins came into view.

Twilight then went on to explain that the reason why he was acting to hyperactive and full of energy was due to the GoGoGo berries that Apple Bloom fed him. "And the only way for us to actually slow you back down before you or anypony else got hurt was with a freezing bath of ice water."

"Th-th-that's g-g-great and a-a-all, b-b-but ca-can I g-g-get out?!" Sunny pushed to get he words out of his mouth.

"Oh! Ugh, right! Sorry!" Twilight said as she lifted him up with her magic and pulled him out of the freezing water.

Still shivering, Applejack and the spa twins approached him with several towns to dry him off and warm him up. "Hang tight, Sugar cube, we'll have ya toaster then ah marshmallow at a campfire."

Later that night, Sunny was helped into bed by Applejack and Twilight. He fell asleep before his head even touched the pillow. The two ponies quietly left the exhausted stallion to get some well needed rest, and made their way downstairs and into the kitchen. Not surprised, Applejack found Rainbow Dash enjoying what must have been her seventh helping of Apple Cider.

"How's our speed demon doing?" Rainbow Dash joked.

"He's sleepin' like a foal" Applejack said as she grabbed her and Twilight a glass of cider as well.

"You know, you were really lucky to catch me between practice sessions" Rainbow commented as she finished her seventh glass. "How else would you have caught him?"

"Ya'll were sleepin' in an apple tree, what do ya mean 'between practice sessions?'" Applejack said flatly.

"I was taking a power nap!" Rainbow Dash countered. "Athletes need to be at the top of their game, ya know!"

"The point is, we caught him and were able to get him cooled off" Twilight intervened. "So thank you Rainbow."

"No prob, Twilight" Rainbow Dash said as she got up and put her mug in the sink. "I'll catch you guys later! Gatta get some rest for tomorrow! Wonderbolts training!"

As Rainbow Dash took off, Twilight and Appeljack waved goodbye to their cyan colored friend. But a yawn from the purple alicorn makes the two remaining friends realize just how late it was. The sun had set quite a while ago, and they all have been through quite a day. It was more tame then most of their adventures, but it was still a tiring day.

"I better be calling it a night, too" Twilight said, turning to Applejack. "Remember though, Sunny might not be able to use magic or do much heavy lifting for a while. The berries make a pony use up all their body's magic to go that fast, and it might take him a while to recover."

"But he'll recover ok, right? No permanent damage?" Applejack sounded nervous for the unicorn living with her and her family.

"Not to worry" Twilight reassured her. "He'll be just fine in a few days. Just keep an eye on him."

"Well, with all he's done around here, nopony'll need ta life a hoof for at least ah week" Applejack joked, urning her a slight chuckled from Twilight. After the two laughed for a moment, Applejack scratched the back of her neck, eyes directed away from the purple alicorn. "Say, Twi... What was it you read in Sunny's journal? Ya know, on that last page?"

Twilight's laughter stopped as her cheeks went red once more, but she was able to smile as she looked Applejack in the eye. "It was about a dream he had. And I'm willing to guess its exactly what your thinking."

Applejack's cheeks turned red as Twilight took this movement to fly off, heading back to her castle to enjoy a night of slumber in her own bed. Despite trying to push the contents of Sunny's journal out of her mind, Twilight found herself rethinking the exact words from his last entry;

'Dear Journal,

I had that dream again. The one where I was on that hill just at the far end of the north orchard with Applejack. This time as we laid on the warm grass and watched the clouds roll by, we held each other's hooves. I don't know how Applejack feels about me, but I hope one day when I tell her how I feel, she'll feel the same way.'