The Sisterverse Social

by brokenimage321

Epilogue

Big Mac pushed open the back door and sighed. He stepped out, carrying a garbage bag in his teeth, and made for the garbage cans out back of the old farmhouse. He pulled the lid off, dropped the bag inside with a hollow clang, and closed it again. He shot a surly look back at the house; though he couldn’t exactly fault his sisters for finding some new friends, he didn’t exactly see how that equated to him waiting on them like some high-falutin’ butler.

He turned and walked back towards the kitchen. He was just about to head back inside, when he noticed something odd: at the foot of the old apple tree in the back yard sat two colts—a white unicorn, and a bluish pegasus. Big Mac frowned, then trotted over to them.

“Can I help y’all?” he asked.

Both of them looked up. The unicorn brightened a little.

“Hey,” he said. “You’re an Apple, aren’t you?”

Big Mac stood up a little straighter. “Last I checked,” he said, a little edge creeping into his voice.

The unicorn nodded towards the farmhouse. “How are they?” he asked.

Big Mac narrowed his eyes. “What’s it to y’all?” he asked.

The unicorn straightened up. “Just that three of them are my sisters,” he said, haughtily.

The pegasus, sitting on the other side of the tree, looked up. “You, too?” he asked.

Both of them turned to look at him, and he stared dopily back. “My sisters are in there, too,” he said, with the slightest whine in his voice. “Mom said to wait for ‘em while she went to talk to the doctor.”

Big Mac glanced between the two colts for a moment, then sighed heavily, and sat. “Big Macintosh,” he said, holding out his hoof.

“Shining Armor,” said the unicorn as he shook it.

“Surfer Beach,” said the pegasus. He didn’t shake Big Mac’s hoof, instead, he just clicked his own hoof against it.

“So…” Big Mac began uncertainty. “Y’all’s sisters were wrapped up in that mess down at the river, too?”

Shining Armor nodded. “Mh-hm,” he said. “My little sis used a trick I showed her to keep them all from going over the falls.” He sighed. “She’s going to be insufferable for the next few weeks…”

“Yeah, well,” Surfer Beach said bitterly, “at least your sister didn’t start it. I mean, if Flyby was just a little stronger, then this wouldn’t have even happened—”

“My sister did start it,” Big Mac said. “She was the first one to jump in after that filly, instead a’ waitin’ for someone with a lick a’ sense to come along…”

They sat in silence for a few moments. Finally, Shining Armor looked up.

“Hey,” he said. “You guys ever up in Canterlot?”

“Not really,” Surfer said. “Why?”

Shining Armor shrugged. “I was thinking that, maybe, we could go out for a doughnut sometime,” he said. He quirked a little smile. “I mean, it seems like we all have something in common—even if it is the fact that our sisters seem to have a knack for getting into trouble…”

Big Mac nodded slowly. “I… think I could get away,” he said. “If I set it up ‘aforehand.”

Surfer shrugged. “Why not,” he said.

Shining Armor smiled. “Cool,” he said.

Big Mac opened his mouth to respond—

One of the windows slammed open, and all three jerked their heads up.

“Big Mac!” screeched Granny Smith. “Y’all get back on in here and—!” she trailed off into barely-comprehensible gibberish—but then again, he was learning to speak fluent gibberish.

Big Mac sighed, then climbed to his hooves. “Gotta go,” he said.

“Have fun,” Surfer said. “Then, at least one of us will…”

Big Mac turned back towards the house. As he walked, he felt himself start to smile.

After all, it had been a while since he’d made a real friend.

~The End~

Comments

[Viper Pit]

if the story is complete then shouldn't you change the status to complete?

[brokenimage321]

8910396
Yes, it should! Thanks for the reminder.

[Viper Pit]

8910430
welcome

[PlieRow666]

So when the sequel be out yet?

[FanOfMostEverything]

A thrilling climax and a lovely capstone. I quite like this universe. I hope you do more with it at some point.

[brokenimage321]

8910450

8910444

No plans for a sequel at present--but the comments have given me a few ideas, at least :)

[PlieRow666]

8910486
And what’s those idea are?

[brokenimage321]

8910503

-Pinks and AJ struggle to host their demanding Pie cousins at Sweet Apple Acres. (If you recall: their great-grandmother is Dutch Apple Pie; in my head, the Pies are descended from one of her sons, the Apples from a daughter).
-Radiance has to babysit Serenade on the same weekend she'd already planned to spend with Best Friend Cadance.
-...not sure about the pegasus subplot, nor how to tie these all together.

[Paxwing]

8910513
Why not rewrite the series? Might end up too similar, though... Maybe different antagonists?

[Frustration in Excelsis]

“Y’all’s sisters were all wrapped up in that mess down at the river,too?”

Missing space.

This was a lovely story. I'm not going to try and badger you into writing more, but if you do ever feel like doing something with this setting again, I would definitely be up for reading it.

[Trinary]

This was great, one of my favorite AUs. It's such a simple concept that I'm amazed no one's done it before--or if they have, it wasn't as memorable as this. I enjoyed it fantastically. Well done!

[everydaygamer]

This was a fun story I think the only negative I have is that Scootaloo doesn't seem to exist in this timeline. But other than that I loved it.

[Naturefang]

8910785
Or you know, maybe she wasn't exactly relavint to this story as, as much as she and Rainbow ARE sisters, she's not actualy a blood relative to any of the mane 6

[Viper Pit]

8910513
why not have the pegasi find scootaloo

[DavisSentoV5]

I demend a sequel!

[Dbot500]

This was an interesting read So do you have any plans for a sequel. Cause i'm curious on how they get the element is the same or not, if pinkie other sister are apples, or what lessons they can learn on the way

[Comickook]

Superb work on this epilogue. I loved the brothers having their own bonding moment. Heck, I could see them meeting again in a one-shot semi-sequel set a couple of weeks after the 1000th Summer Sun Celebration and discussing even more recent events with their families (and maybe Shining introducing Mac and Beach to Cadance [only to gently remind the latter that she already HAS a coltfriend]).

But I digress.

Anyway, the exchange and characterizations were well done in the wrap-up and I definitely would NOT mind a sequel if you decide to do one AND once you had sufficient think time.

[Frankie2]

It will be interesting how the rest of this series plays out... provided there's more to come.

[Toon4Thought]

This is a really interesting AU, and one that I think you did a pretty good job with. What you did with Pinkie/Pinks was brilliant IMO, to the point where I'd want to see more of her as an Apple. Though you definitely provided enough context to help fill in the blanks, so there's that.

That, and I'm trying to imagine Andrea Libman reading those lines in a country-like accent.

[way_2_spooky_4_u]

An alternate universe prologue that doesn't use any of the major events from the show? And it's good? I'll keep an eye out for sequels.

[guldringr]

Yet another comment asking for a sequel seriously this is one of the best alternate universe setups I've seen up there with the Luna verse and rainbooms and royalty

[Ice Star]

You finish with the promise of a brother story? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaa!

[brokenimage321]

10443716
Hehe! It was fun reading along with your comments. I'm so glad I could get you this involved!

I'd love to return to this universe a little more--if for nothing else to fulfill that promise of a brother story--but I feel it works pretty well as a one-shot (with the exception, of course, of the spin-off sequel ).

[Ghost Mike]

An oddball ghost happened across your fic and read it. Have a review!

[Thyrrnatf]

good story