//------------------------------// // Zeeby's Bane/Mac's Tooth Horror // Story: Heart Of The Guardians // by BodhiBRO100 //------------------------------// "Why haven't you come back to me, sister?" Zecora asks Poison. Poison replied. "Cause I didn't believe you'd be of help. Especially for somepony like me at that age." "I'm your older sister, you know. You could've came to to me when you were a foal." Zecora said. "I'm capable of handling myself." Poison replied seriously. "Until she met me, for some reason she doesn't trust you." Brainy said. Zecora sighs. "Remember what I told you before?" she asked her little sister. Poison rolled her eyes. "Yeah yeah, I remember. You said to not be afraid of anypony, including your own family, my gift is amazing." she said. "It really is. I promise. I can heal, you can infect." Zecora said. "Yeah, but you can heal with potions and stuff, not from your own hooves." Poison replied. "Which is why I'm so pleased to know that I'm not alone in the world with gifts." Brainy added. Poison looked at him. "I guess we're both relieved." she said to him. "Maybe the legend of us was right, maybe we ARE the superior." Brainy looks at Poison with a confused look. "I never said that, Zecora never said that." he said. "It was just a thought." Poison said, smiling. "What happened to your rhyming speech that you used to do, sister?" she asked Zecora. "I promised you before you left, that I wouldn't do that when we talk to each other." Zecora said. "And I won't do it for you either, Brainy, since you're great friends with her." she said to the pony. Brainy talks into Zecora's mind, with his mind powers. "You don't have to, I know what you say and think at all times, trust me." he said in her mind, with a wink. Zecora smiled and nodded. "Anyway, me and Brainy should get out of here, we have other things to do today." Poison said. Brainy opens the door with his mind, looks back at the zebras and smiles. "By all means, but sister, definitely come back if want to. I'm always here for you." Zecora said to Poison. Poison nods. "I'll keep it in mind, thanks." she said, smiling. Back at Sweet Apple Acres, Zeeby is shown many feet away from the farm, overlooking it, inhaling and exhaling, and then he walks over to the farm with a lonely and frustrated look on his face. Sugar Belle is seen next to Big Mac, probably has come earlier to hang out with the clydesdale. "Private, we must talk to you for a minute, if you will?" Webber asked the pegasus. Private nods and weakly smiles. "Let's go behind the barn then." Twilight said. Webber and Twilight walk with Private and Applejack, to the back of the barn. Darky looks at Sugar Belle and Big Mac. "We'll be back mates." he said with a smile, and follows the other ponies. Sugar Belle and Big Mac nod in agreement. "Ah!" Big Mac exclaimed, and he held the side of his mouth in pain. Sugar Belle pats Macintosh's back, trying to comfort him. "Poor sweetie." she said to the stallion. "That potion sure did a number on you, and I wish you hadn't taken it." Big Macintosh replies to Belle. "I had to make myself stand out for once in a long time. The only other time I actually did something loyal and helpful, was to help Applebloom try to win the Sisterhooves Social." Mac still held his mouth in pain. "Your tooth hurting you, big guy?" Zeeby said, walking up to the mare and stallion. Big Mac grunts in pain, still holding his mouth. "Eeyup." he said. Sugar Belle frowned. "My poor sweet Big Mac has had this problem for days." she said. "Eeyup." Big Mac replied. "Let's just say it is a long story on how this happened..." he said sheepishly. "Understandable." Zeeby said with a nod. "You know, I can take it out for you if you want? Since it sounds like you don't want to go to an actual dentist. Fear is normal." he offered. Big Mac looks at Zeeby in confusion. "You may be a zebra like Zecora, but you don't look like a dentist." he said. Zeeby shakes his head. "I'm not. I actually came looking for you." he said to Big Mac. "I was told from my nose that you know where a couple of my "disguised friends" are." Big Mac covers his mouth and gasps quietly in shock. "What do you mean?" Sugar Belle asked Zeeby. "This stallion never told me about talking with changelings." she said, looking at Big Mac worryingly. "They told me if I could keep a secret, and I said I could." Big Mac said. Then, a flashback is shown, with Private walking away from Big Mac. "Private, wait!" Macintosh exclaimed, starting to follow him, until suddenly Hopper is shown being teleported by his right hoof pony, Vanish, who is shown as a dark red, scarred, Earth pony, with green eyes, a black mane, and a thin and sharp dark red tail. Big Mac turns around to see the changeling and pony, as they come up to him. "Big Macintosh, what a shy but chivarlrous farm pony you are." Hopper said. "Uh, how do you know me?" Big Mac asked Hopper. The changeling replied. "Telekinesis, as always. I understand you're not very talkative, so maybe you can keep a secret for me?" Big Mac nods. "Eeyup. What kind of secret?" he then asked. Hopper goes up close to his face. "A secret you might unfortunately not be able to keep for long." "Try me." Macintosh said with a sassy look on his face. The flashback ends, as Big Mac finishes telling Zeeby that he kept the secret from him. "Well, you said that the changeling has told you where he's left some of his bodyguards, that went into hiding." Zeeby said. "You're gonna help me find them." Big Mac shakes his head, with his hoof still on the side of his mouth. "Nnope." he said. Zeeby then goes up to Sugar Belle, put his hoof on her shoulder, and uses his powers to put her to sleep. Macintosh gasps at what Zeeby did, and backs away from the zebra. "What did you just do to her?" he asked. In his first person persepctive, Mac still backs away, looking at an eerie smiling Zeeby, who gets closer to him. "She'll be fine, don't worry." Zeeby said to Big Mac. "Will you give me info on where Hopper's groupies might be now?" Big Mac uses his size to stand up towards Zeeby, and shakes his head. "Nnope." he said. "He told me to not tell you a thing, and I promised I wouldn't." Zeeby chuckles abit. "You're working with the bad guys here, that's not like you!" he replied. "Tell you what, you tell me what I need to know, I'll yank the tooth out for you. You refuse, I'll make it hurt more." he said with a serious look. Big Mac breathes heavilly in fear. "Why do you have to be so mean and nasty?" he said hesitantly. Zeeby sighs, giving up on his angry mood. "I'm sorry, I don't mean to, but I'm getting angrier every day I can't find Hopper! I'll END him for what he's done to me...." he exclaimed angrily." "Well, some changelings came here after the one you're searching for did, and they asked the same questions and told the same info. Probably as a warning from this "Hopper" feller that you'd catch up." Macintosh said. "How could you side with them?!" Zeeby asked angrily. "They were reformed." Big Mac said back. "How would you tell?" Zeeby asked with a raised left eyebrow and inquisitive smile. Macintosh sighs. "True." he said and giggled. "Will you give me info, PLEASE?" the zebra asked desperately. "There, I said please." "If it satisfies you, they said they were going to Canderlot. A restaurant near the castle. Didn't give much details." Mac said. Zeeby nods his head and smiles brightly. "That's all I need to know, thank you, um...?" Macintosh grunts again in pain, holding his mouth again. "Big Macintosh." he said in a painful tone. "Zeeby Stripes." the zebra said, putting his hoof on his chest, respectively. The clydesdale and zebra shake hooves greetfully. Then suddenly, Zeeby uses his powers to restrain Big Mac, in a leaning position, against the wall of the barn. "How are you doing this?" Big Mac asked. "I have a supernatural gift to manipulate any type of magic, including the magic inside of anypony. You have magic in you, even without a horn." Zeeby explained. Macintosh nodded. "Eeyup, I know." Zeeby puts his right hoof on Mac's chest, as he looks at the leaning pony in the eyes. "Canderlot, huh? I'll look for those monsters right away." he said with a slanted grin. Then he raises his left hoof, aiming it at Big Mac's mouth. "Now, Big Macintosh, open wide." Big Mac nods again, and opens his mouth. "Ahhhh...." he said with his mouth open. Zeeby then uses his powers to locate the tooth that is aching Macintosh, without knowing, and he tries to pull it out with his powers. "Huh? A green tooth?" he said in confusion. "What kind of cavity is this?" he then asked. "Argh, it nah a cacity, it.." Big Mac started in a muffled tone. Zeeby stops, to let Mac speak. "What are you saying?" he asked. "I said, it's not a cavity, it's a side effect from a potion I drank a while back, and it's been a hurtin so darn bad." Big Mac finished saying. "Now you can get it out." he said, opening his mouth again. Zeeby tries again, using his powers to wiggle the tooth out gently. "Hmm, interesting." he said, gritting his teeth. "I've missed alot during the reign of Nightmare Moon's banishment." Big Mac groans in mild pain, as Zeeby shakes his head slowly, watching the tooth wiggle, struggling to pull it out. Big Mac shakes very nervously, while still retrained, and Zeeby keeps trying to get the tooth. Zeeby starts speaking in an unknown language that sounded like nasty gibberish to the red stallion. As the tooth wiggles and makes a squishing sound in the socket, Big Mac winches and groans in even more pain. He squeezes his eyes shut and attempts to close his mouth to relieve himself, but Zeeby's power forces it open. The zebra makes a deep, maniacal chuckle, then grunts in frustration as he struggles, while the big stallion begins to scream in agony and shaking violently. A couple seconds later, finally, the tooth quickly ejects from Big Mac's mouth, onto Zeeby's hoof. The zebra looks at the green tooth, then looks back into Macintosh's mouth, breathing heavilly tiredly. "Ahhh!" Big Mac exclaimed, breathing heavily in relief. The pain was over in an instant. "My goodness gravy, what a relief!" he then said happily. "Thanks." Zeeby looks at Big Mac with a smile, patting his chest, and unrestrains the farm pony, holding the tooth in his left hoof. "Eeyup." he said with a wink. "That side effect didn't get out without a fight, thanks for the info I needed. Those changelings will pay for what they did to me." He then throws the tooth to Macintosh. Big Mac catches it with one hoof, and rubs his cheek with the other. Then he smiles at Zeeby. Just as the zebra was about to revive Sugar Belle and leave, Big Mac stops him to ask him one more thing. "How will you know if they are really evil or not?" he asked. Zeeby replied. "I also am able to smell all types of magic, including shapeshifting." he said with a smile. He then waves his hoof over Sugar Belle, reviving her. "Thanks again, Big Mac." Big Mac nods and smiles. "Eeyup." he said. Sugar Belle gets up from the ground, and looks at Big Mac staring at Zeeby, who's leaving, with a frustrated look on the zebra's face. "Big Mac, sweetie, are you okay?" she asked worringly. "What did that zebra do to you? Who is he?" "Eeyup, I'm okay." Macintosh said, comforting Sugar Belle, and looking at Zeeby walking away. "He got my tooth out, and he seems like somepony with a terrible past from changelings probably. Who knows what tarnation that zebra's been through." "I agree. Poor thing." Sugar Belle said. Suddenly, Webber, Darky, Private, Twilight, and Applejack come back to Macintosh and Belle, and they see the green tooth in Mac's hoof. "Brotha, how'd ya get that outta ya?" Applejack asked in surprise. Big Mac stares into the distance. "A long, almost painful story.." he said. Later, in Manehattan, a mare with a purple coat, white gradient legs and hooves, a wavy white, light purple, and black mane and tail, and white and pink headphones, is seen hiding behind a bush, looking at Hopper entering a building.