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// Big Mac x Tank - 'Strong, Silent Type' - The Hybrid Changeling 
// Story: You Ship It, I Write It 
// by AJtheRaven 
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       Big Mac sat on top of Sweet Apple Acres' tallest hill, staring into the gleaming summer sunset. Perched rather comically atop his hulking red figure was a placid young tortoise with helicopter blades attached to his shell. As per usual whenever she went on a date with Applejack, Rainbow Dash had left Tank behind in the care of her marefriend's big brother. 
Mac sighed contentedly, his thick jaw working on a blade of wheat, and reached around to give Tank a gentle pat. "Enjoyin' th' view, little buddy?"
Tank's face slowly creased in a smile, but he said nothing. Which was expected, because he was a tortoise. 
Mac chuckled deep in his throat. He sometimes felt more comfortable around the tortoise than he did other ponies. "You an' me, we're both th' strong, silent type, eh?" 
Tank rubbed his nose against Mac's mane in an obviously pleased manner. 
Smiling, the powerful stallion scooped Tank into his hooves and brought him up to his muzzle to give him what was, in his mind, no more than a brotherly kiss on the forehead. Unfortunately, his hooves slipped and the tortoise's face grazed against his lips. 
Mac froze, panicked. 
Even more unfortunately, he had picked the worst time possible to make such a mistake. 
"YO!" a raspy voice shouted, accompanied by a blur of rainbow and the screeching sound of somepony sliding to a very abrupt stop. Rainbow Dash had come back to the farmhouse to pick up a bow tie and was now finding herself facing a very different scene than what she had expected. "What the hell are you doing to my tortoise?!"