Just to clarify, this story takes place five years before the Nightmare Moon incident. Also, the human is one year old.
What in the World?
Editor: The Special Pegasus
Out in the great expanse of Sweet Apple Acres, a foreign creature crawls about. Equipped with nothing but its one piece blue nighty and diaper, it explores its new environment. Trees all around with great big shiny red apples filled the creatures eyes, a single dirt path just in view, and a loud snoring barely reaches its ears. As it crawls, trying to find the noise that it hears, an apple falls from one of the trees and hits the creature on its backside.
"WAAAAAAAAAAA W-W-WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" the creature cries.
Off in the distance a cyan Pegasus mumbles in her sleep, "F-Five more minutes..."
"WAAAAAAAAA!!!"
She tosses in her sleep and mumbles again, "I said five more minutes..."
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"
The Pegasus shoots up and yells, "I said FIVE MORE MINUTES!"
"W-W-WAAAAAAAAAAAAA WAAAAAA!!!"
"For the love of..." She flew down from the tree and started to follow the crying. When she finally found what was making all of the racket she stopped in her tracks. When the creature spotted the Pegasus it stopped its crying and just stared at it. After a minutes or so of the staring contest the creature started to crawl to the cyan Pegasus. "No... no no no stay! Staaaay! Stop coming closer!" but the creature just kept coming. "A-A-AJ!!!" She flew off down the dirt path with the small creature slowly following.
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A stetson wearing pony came trotting out of a big red barn. She just got done with all the apple bucking for the day and needed some down time, so what better to do then go back inside and have some of her granny’s homemade apple juice. As she was about to open the door to her home, she heard a familiar voice cry out her name.
"AAAAAPPLEJACK!!!"
Applejack turned just in time to see her friend shoot out of the trees and fly toward her, "Rainbow! What's got you so excited?"
"There’s this... this THING in your farm! And it's coming this way!" Rainbow yelled.
"What kinda "thing" is it?"
"Well it's small, no bigger then a new born foal. I think it was wearing something because its face and body were two different colors and from what I could see it had no fur besides like, a tiny bit on the top of its head. But that's not the worst part! It was sooooo loud, AJ! It was like being in middle of a thunderstorm!"
"Ya mean that thing over there?" Applejack pointed over to where Rainbow came out of.
"Oh Celestia there it is!" she turned back to AJ, "We have to trap it somehow."
"How do ya reckon we do that?"
"Uhm..." She looked around the farm frantically and spotted the barn. "Oh! We can trap it in the barn! Okay you go and hide behind the door and I'll lure it inside." Rainbow flew off closer to the creature and AJ went to the barn and opened the door for the trap.
The creature crawled toward the pair but stopped when Rainbow got close, "Okay little... thing... follow m-me." She started to slowly fly toward the barn with the creature almost in reach. With the creatures speed it took about seven to eight minutes but as they finally got close enough Rainbow rushed in and the creature playfully followed.
"Hurry on out Dash before it gets ya!" Applejack yelled as she closed the bottom half of the barn door.
"Don't have to tell me twice!" Rainbow yelled back, but as she flew over she accidentally flew just in reach of the creature and was grabbed by her tail. "Oh no! It’s got me AJ, help!"
"Oh horse apples, I'mma comin' Dash!" Applejack jumped over the bottom half of the door and rushed to Dash's rescue. She grabbed Dash's fore hooves and pulled, setting Rainbow free and making the creature fall face first into the dirt of the barn. The creature got up and started to hiccup and tears ran down its face. "Uhm Dash... what do ya think it’s doin'?"
"Wha?" Rainbow turns around and see the creature crying, "Oh no! It’s going to start with the loud crying!"
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA W-W-W-WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"
Both fillies covered their ears in an attempt to block out the crying, but to no avail. Dash made her way toward AJ and yelled, "We need to go and find Fluttershy! She might know what to do!" Applejack nodded and they made their way out the barn with the creature left behind. They ran and flew with panic in their hearts as they made their way to Fluttershy's cottage on the edge of the Everfree Forest.
As the cottage came into view Rainbow Dash picked up the speed and went straight for the door. "Fluttershy open up! We have an emergency... there's a monster at Applejacks farm and we need your help to get rid of it!" she yelled as she banged on the door. After a minute or two with nothing happening she tried again, "Come on Fluttershy! If we don't hurry who knows what kind of damage that thing can do!" Again nothing happened.
By then Applejack was at the front with Rainbow and she asked, "Anything yet?" Dash responded with a shake of the head. "Maybe she's not home? Come on, let’s go ask that Rarity girl, those two seem closer than two peas in a pod nowadays. She might know where she is." With that the two ponies made their way back to Ponyville.
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"Thank you for inviting me over for tea Rarity, it was really thoughtful of you." A butter yellow pony told her friend.
"Oh think nothing of it darling, I just love some company whenever I have some tea and no other pony would make for a better companion then you would." Rarity responded after a sip from her tea.
A blush appeared on Fluttershy's face that she tried to cover up with her mane. "I'm sure that there would be plenty of over ponies that would make better company... what about Rainbow Dash?"
Rarity rolled her eyes, "Oh please Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash would be some of the worst company out of everypony in Ponyville! Honestly I can't figure out why you are even friends with that brute. And that mare she's always competing with, Applejack I think it was... well she's just as bad. Oh but don't get me wrong dear, they’re both good ponies, it's just that they are just soooo... uncouth." she grimaced
"Oh Rarity, I'm sure that they can act civil. I bet that the next time you see them they will act-" Fluttershy was cut off by a loud crash at the door. Both fillies turned their heads over to the entrance of the kitchen just in time to see Rainbow flying in the doorway with AJ close behind, both breathing heavily.
"Why did you two crash through my door!" Rarity yelled.
"No time to explain... there is... there is a monster on AJ's farm!" Rainbow said through gasps of breath.
Fluttershy started shaking, "A m-m-m-monster! What k-k-kind of monster?" she squeaked out.
"The loud kind, now come on before it starts trouble." the farm pony said and ran out the building with the others close behind.
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Back at the farm the group trotted along the main path. As they were walking an old looking green mare sitting at the front porch of the house waved them over. "Hello dearies, what’re a bunch young ‘uns like yerselves doin’ this fine day?"
Applejack took a step closer and said, "Good evenin’ Granny, we got ourselves a situation here on the farm that we need their help with. Ya wouldn't happen to know where Big Mac and Apple Bloom are would ya? We could use him in case things get out of hoof and I wouldn't want Apple Bloom ta get anywhere near the thing."
Granny put her hoof to her chin and looked deep in thought, "Well... Big Mac is out at the market place selling and Apple Bloom went to the barn ta play I think."
AJ's eyes grew to saucer plates, "She’s at the barn! Come on girls we need ta hurry!" Applejack made a mad dash to the barn with the other four ponies following close behind.
"Wait, Pinkie Pie!? Where the hay did you come from!?" Rainbow yelled at the pink pony after noticing that she was with them.
"What? I want to see the baby." Pinkie sang while bouncing.
"What are you even talking about!" Dash yelled at her again.
"Don't question it Dash! We need all the help we can get!" AJ yelled. The barn was close now, just a few more yards to go. When Applejack got close enough she pivoted on her fore hooves and bucked the barn doors open. Turning back around she yelled, "Apple Bloom! We’re here ta... save ya?" What they saw left AJ and Dash slack jawed. Over in the middle of the barn was Apple Bloom and the creature both... giggling as little Apple Bloom tickled the creature with her tail. The five ponies walked in and Applejack asked, "Uhm... sugarcube, what is it that y'all are doin'?"
"Oh hi, AJ! I was just playing with this little guy. He was crying real bad and I had ta try and help him." Apple Bloom said after she stopped tickling the creature.
"Him? How do you know it’s a him?" Fluttershy asked.
"Well, what else would he be?"
"I thought you two said it was a monster." Rarity started, "But to me it looks like a newborn."
Rainbow scratched the back of her head, "W-Well you didn't hear the thing-"
"Him." Apple Bloom corrected.
Dash rolled her eyes, "HIM crying. Now that it-"
"He." she corrected again.
"Now that HE stopped, he ain't so bad."
"So uhm..." Fluttershy said.
"Yes dear, what is it?" Rarity asked.
"Oh it’s just... Uhm... now that we know he's not a monster, what do we do now?"
"What do ya mean, sugarcube?"
"Well we can't just leave him alone. He's only a baby after all.
"Are you suggestin’ that one of us should take him in?"
"Well I can't take him. I'm pretty sure he would just fall through the floor." Rainbow stated.
There was a explosion of giggling that came from the baby. Pinkie was holding a puppy shaped balloon and was bumping it against his face. "I would take him," she started, "But I'm sure that the Cakes wouldn't want a baby running around the store just yet."
"Well that just leaves Rar, Fluttershy, and me." Applejack stated.
"Well I would love it if he came with me." Rarity said, "Just think of all the new types of clothes I can make for him! Plus I'm sure that he would be able to keep Sweetie Belle out of my hair whenever she comes to visit."
"I wouldn't mind if he stayed with me. I'm sure that all of my animals would help me if I needed it." Fluttershy said.
"Well, he and Apple Bloom seem ta get along pretty well and Ah'm sure that Granny wouldn't mind looking after him when I go out applebuckin’." Applejack added.
Just then Pinkie Pie jumped next to the group and looked at the wall and said, "So who will take the baby home with them? Will it be the seamstress Rarity! The caretaker Fluttershy! Or the apple farmer Applejack! I don't know, but I'm pretty sure that you do."
"Uhm... Pinkie, who the hay are you talking to?" Dash asked.
"Oh, no one Dashie, no one at all." *wink*
To be continued
First chapter is done and with that your first two decisions. Now how this will work is simple, you will pick one thing out of each group, put it in your comment, and Sunday night I'll count all the votes and the story will change depending on said vote.
Now then, what you will be voting for will range from his personality to his future job. Every choice you make will change the story drastically, so make sure to really think about it. One more thing, his personality choices will have a little tidbit that will give you an idea of how it will effect him without straight up telling you (for the most part). With that done let’s get to the votes!
Who will he live with?
Applejack
Fluttershy
Rarity
Personality
Little Angel- "Awwww, what a well behaved little baby you are!"
Problem Child- "♪I don't want to set the world on fire♪... But I will anyway >:)"
Kid Genius- "H-How did you get out of the house! All the doors were locked!"
Normal- "Why would you pick this? What is wrong with you?"
*This first Personality choice will have the most effect on the story, so really think about how this will turn out in the long run, because this will be his base personality throughout the story and will open up different choices.
VOTING HAS ENDED, check out the results here.
AN: And to clarify a few more things, the mane 6 are about 16 years old right now and I know what you’re thinking: "Aren't they a bit young to raise a baby" or "Why aren't they living with their parents?"
And the answers are: I like to think that in pony society it is perfectly fine to leave the house at the age of 15 or so. Why? Because at that age they would have learned their basics at school and would know what their talent is. So they could be a productive part of society and would be able to find a job at that point.
And if you think about it 4 out of the 5 more or less have already got a place to live for free, AJ lives with family, Dash made her home, Pinkie works for a room, Rarity's parents paid for her place. Fluttershy is the only one that might have paid for hers, then again I like to think her place was just a hole in the ground and the animals helped make it what it is today.
Thank you reading this chapter and remember... let’s have fun with this :3
Well Fluttershy is the most fitting to be taking care of anything, so her.
Personality , kid genius I guess. As long as he's not making new inventions by age 5 or something.
I shall present my opinions with pictures...
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and...
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Make him a problem child that would be fun
Fluttershy and Kid Genius
1. Fluttershy
2. Normal
Also, it's 'Applejack,' not 'Apple Jack.'
kid genius
Kid Genius with Fluttershy
Kid Genious + Applejack! By the way, misspelled barn in there somewhere. I saw bran in its place.
Fluttershy and little angel
applejack and kid genius. he'd confuse her and fit in with the crusaders. lol dictionary
I would personally love to see something like this.
Kid Genius
Fluttershy
Somehow has magical abilities with his hands glowing in place of a horn.
To counteract being brilliant and magical so he isn't absolutely perfect I would hope for this for his personality (roughly).
Wise beyond his years.
Plays the occasional prank and defends with pure logic similar to twilight in a way.
Generally goofy but not to the extent of pinkie by any stretch of the imagination.
Rock solid in any choice he makes.
Issues with having magical ability like any pony else but unable to get a cutie mark.
Just to name a couple.
Also OP. Absolutly BRILLIANT concept with the interactive storyline here. I cannot wait to see more.
Rarity and problem child
OR
Applejack and little angel
Fluttershy Kid Genius
Fluttershy and Problem Child.
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The ability to use some form of magic is actually a perk you guys can pick about 2/5ths way through the story and depending on the choices you guys make is what he can have.
Also remember the kid is only 1 and is still growing, so there is plenty of time to "customize" him as the years go by.
Rarity and genius!!!
my chose well be Fluttershy and his personallty Little angle.
Fluttershy and kid genius
You know i think i am going to sit back and enjoy the story since the one i would like isn't getting any votes and everyone seems to want the same thing
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You magnificent writer.
Cannot wait to see more. Any estimates once the votes are tallied how long it takes to write a chapter?
I agree with picture guy, magicpunk&apple based technology would be super rad.
Leave those flippin Flim Flam Bro.s in the dust.
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I'm going to try to make a set schedule for this.
Release chapter on Friday
Count up votes on Sunday
Have chapter done by Friday
'Try' being the main word here, never know if I will hit a wall.
Though the votes are leaning to my preferred path so chances are that wont happen next chapter.
Applejack, Kid Genius.
(Rarity is a bad choice, Fluttershy is too obvious a choice)
(Kid Genius so he can compete as a human without magic living in a world with everyone else having magic)
Either Fluttershy and Kid Genius or Rarity and Kid Genius. I think Kid Genius might get him to develop magic, and Rarity might help with that. Flutters should help out a bit though with raising him.
flutershy
normal
whay to many kid genius fics out here
Kid genius and fluttershy. I want to see him torment her with his genius! Muahahaha!
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He is only a 1 year old, So there is plenty of time for him to develop different masks for different ponies (if you guys choose to of course).
I'm torn between Kid Genius and Little Angel. I think it would be good to use Little Angel IF this story involves Evil Human Myths. If not putting a Kid Genius with Applejack would be hilarious. Twilight dirves her crazy enough, but I just keep thinking that she'll go "Sweet Celestia's Fanny there's TWO of 'em!"
Fluttershy
Genius
Am I in before this hits feature?...
I think so, good, if (or when) this gets featured comments will probably fly almost as fast as rainbow... almost.
as for voting I think I will go with a bit "all of thee above+", after all baby sitters will probably be needed every now and again.
But as for his primary care giver... as much as I would love to stick Rarity with diaper duty and as much as I love the idea of Fluttershy as a parent I think its best if he gets to be near his big sis, the first one to bond with him, aka Applebloom!
I just hope he won't be upset when his big sis and her two best buds finely get there cutie marks and he... well can't....
as for personality...
Normal?... yick, besides the only people who think there is such a thing as normal are the ones who are either oblivious enough to not notice everybody has there little secret side just under the skin or just plan nuts themselves.
Problem child? naw, I dun want my precious ponies hearts broken... not on purpose anyways, hey, manure happens am I right?
little angle? hmmm, interesting, maybe, would be nice to see a little timid sweetie out and about, though the sweetness would have its "limits" after all, like I said we all have that other side just under our skins
But I think I would have to go with kid genius, be an interesting mix to have with Applejack as she prefers to keep things simple, plus since we know round about what apple blooms talent is (crafts and such) they would make a nice pair indeed!
So, I say a genius child living with the Apple family.... though I hope he will remember to keep out of the everfree...
FlutterGenius
It seems to me that most of you think that "genius" translates to egghead or just really smart, which is not the case.
Genius means to be very, VERY good at something.(more or less)
A genius chef.
A genius musician.
A genius writer.
A genius artiest.
The list goes on and on and there will be a time that you guys will pick what kind of genius he is, but for now all it really means is that he is a little brighter then a normal 1 year old.
kid genius like pony babys are they are BABYS AND THEY CAN ALREADY FLY AND DO MAGIC
Fluttershy and Kid Genius.
rarity or fluttershy and little angel
Pinkie and evil.
This should be a My Little Dashie reversal with Fluttershy doing much of the raising.
Fluttershy and a mix of normal and little angel.
Fluttershy doesnt have a stutter, rarity should sound more elegent, rainbow would not let others think she was scared, applejack should probably be written in more of an accent and tbe ponies dont hate eachother. Thier all good enogh to be friends without rarity hating on em and there are alot of mistakes in the writing. Dont let me get u down. Just kee trying and get sumone to proof read it for u
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I think I should explain my reasoning behind the hate. I see no way for Rarity to be close friends with Dash and AJ without Twilight being the one that ties them together. Rarity has openly bashed on both of them in the show for being "uncouth" or unladylike, so why wouldn't she do it behind their backs. The only way I can see Rarity even talking to those two before Nightmare Moon is because Fluttershy is friends with Dash. They just seem to different to be close friends without something tying them together and I don't think Fluttershy could be that something. Anyway just my thought process on that, just so you know I did think about it first.
Also the Fluttershy stutter... yep your right, don't really know what I was thinking for that... I'll just go fix that.
Scared Rainbow... like I said in the AN, there will be close to no fun times in later chapters. So if she has to be OOC for a few cheap laughs then I'll have to bite the bullet and make a few people mad.
AJ's accent... I hate writing her, I try to do the accent but then the red line is under the word and then I spend like 10 minutes on google to find out how it's spelled only to find nothing. So I ended playing it safe with the proper spelling of the word.
Rarity's elegants... I got nothing, I'll work on it.
And thank you the criticism, someone had to do it and I'm glad that you weren't rude about, so thanks again.
Fluttershy and Kid Genius
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Don't forget about all the minute biological differences they will have to deal with. For example; as far as I know, ponies don't lose their baby teeth. At least not in the same way. Of course, I could be horrifically wrong. Lol.
Loving the concept. However if this is five years before the show should't Applebloom be more... Babyish?
Rarity is right out, she doesn't have the resources nor the knowledge to deal with this. That leaves flutters or jack. I say Applejack. Practicality is to be treasured after all.
And kid genius no contest.
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I like to think that the CMC are about 8 or 9 so that would be 3 or 4.
Now then 3 and 4 year olds can talk, just not that well... and I didn't portray that at all.
It's not that I didn't think of it at the time when I wrote it, I just couldn't find a way make it stand out.
So sorry for the confusion.
Fluttershy, and a problem child..... he's going to need it if he is going to handle angel.
Kid genius and Rarity
I mean come on, dont you guys want a Fabulous mothefucker who solves problems like Twilight ? HE WILL BE GLORIOUSLY FABULOUS AND AWESOME, MARK MY WORDS.
All in all awesome story and awesome idea, im actually digging for a continuation.
Edit : Also dont make Rainbow go OOC, there are even BETTER ways to use her Tomboyish attitude to make even better jokes, i mean her personality is a joke goldmine if you know how to use it. If you make her go OOC then you´ll only be wasting good potential. I mean you can make the reader go MAD by just making her like she is
problem child and fluttershy
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Don't worry to much about her going OOC, I was kind of grasping at straws for ways to start this story and that just happened to be the best one.
Now while every one is saying 'kid genius' I keep thinking of the fallout traits 'gifted' and 'skilled' (I've been thinking of fallout too much lately)
I think I'll continue with this. You ask the readers his 'personality' and I'll convert them into fallout lingo and such.
setup
Gender: male
Traits: tba
S.P.E.C.I.A.L: tba
Skills: tba (I'll be changing some of these around and adding in joke skills)
(P.S. I'm just doing this for my own added enjoyment, you can simply ignore me. You can also ask me to stop at any time, if you find this to be irritating)
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Did you happen to read my blog?
Because I described the choices as Fallout perks.
And by all means continue, I'm looking forward to how that turns out.